DISCOVERY: Nikos Andritsakis

IN SEARCH OF NEW IMAGES

Dibakar Banerjee’s Love Sex aur Dhokha a.k.a. LSD is India’s first major digital film. Much of the credit for its authentically tacky look goes to young Greek cinematographer Nikos Andritsakis, whose brief was to make amateurish and shaky footage look aesthetic. “When I first met Dibakar, he showed me some low-grain porn videos from YouTube. And that was all the reference material we had,” Nikos laughs. From there to designing a distinctive look for each of the three stories of LSD was an exciting journey. “The first story is the video diary of an amateur filmmaker. So we used shots from his film, which is why the footage is unframed and quite gritty. The second is a story in a supermarket seen through the store’s CCTV cameras, so we have wide, high-angle zshots. The third story has a hidden camera in someone’s vest or bag because it’s a sting journalist’s story.”