‘I Approach Things With Heart’: Robby Müller Award Recipient Sayombhu Mukdeeprom on Cinematography
variety.comMarta Balaga Thai cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – whose films include Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar nominee for best picture “Call Me by Your Name” and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or winner “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” and who recently lensed Netflix thriller “Beckett” – received the third Robby Müller Award on Thursday, following in the footsteps of Mexican DP Diego García and American director Kelly Reichardt.The trophy is given out by International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ Society of Cinematographers and Andrea Müller-Schirmer.“When he films empty space, it becomes clear that it was actually never empty,” argued the jury, but Mukdeeprom was also feted by his illustrious collaborators, from Guadagnino and Tilda Swinton to “Arabian Nights” helmer Miguel Gomes. “You came to work for one year, not knowing what we were going to shoot or how, so I think you are kind of crazy.
In a very good way,” said Gomes in one of the congratulatory videos, while Swinton applauded the jurors for their decision: “I want to congratulate you for choosing to give this great honor to not only one of the great artists of our time working in cinema, but also to one of my friends.
To call you a comrade is one of the privileges of my life.” Swinton has worked with Mukdeeprom on “Suspiria” and Weerasethakul’s latest film “Memoria.”The Thai Palme d’Or winner also took time to celebrate his longtime cinematographer: “I look back at when we first worked together 20 years ago and you are the same guy.
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