Somehow I’ve ended up making dioramas—miniature worlds in boxes—for a living. Over the last 17 years, I have made (and sold) several thousand. The scale is a classic model railway—1:87, so figures are less than an inch high.
“Cinerama,” which I ended up exhibiting in Telluride during the 2019 Telluride Film Festival, is a collection of over 25 dioramas of films I love.
Some highlights in the making of Cinerama: Brad Pitt and Ed Norton getting bloody in Fight Club; kitting out the kids running away in the Moonrise Kingdom; the gravity-defying bamboo-jungle sword fight in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Taika Waititi as Hitler leaping through a Bavarian forest in Jojo Rabbit; painting the whites of Daniel Kaluuya’s eyes in Get Out; and gluing Steve Buscemi’s 3 mm leg into a miniature wood chipper for Fargo.
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#1 The Truman Show, Dir. Peter Weir (1998)
Starring in miniature: Jim Carrey.
#2 Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, Dir. Chris Columbus (2001)
Starring in miniature: Daniel Radcliffe and Hedwig.
#3 Bohemian Rhapsody, Dir. Bryan Singer (2018)
Starring in miniature: Rami Malek.
#4 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dir. Ang Lee (2003)
Starring in miniature: Yun-Fat Chow and Ziyi Zhang.
#5 Fargo, Dir. The Coen Brothers (1996)
Starring in miniature Peter Stormare and Steve Buschemi’s foot.
#6 To Kill A Mockingbird, Dir. Robert Mulligan (1962)
Starring in miniature Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and Brock Peters.
#7 Fight Club, Dir. David Fincher (1999)
Starring in miniature: Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
#8 Out Of Africa, Dir. Sydney Pollack (1985)
Starring in miniature Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
#9 Life Of Pi, Dir. Ang Lee (2012)
Starring in miniature Suraj Sharma.
#10 Vertigo, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
#11 Amelie, Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2002)
Starring in miniature Audrey Tautou.
#12 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dir. Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Starring in miniature Keir Dullea.
#13 Man On A Wire, Dir. James Marsh (2008)
Starring in miniature Philippe Petit.
#14 Jojo Rabbit, Dir. Taika Waititi (2019)
Starring in miniature: Taika Waititi and Roman Griffin Davis.
#15 Blade Runner, Dir. Ridley Scott (1982)
Starring in miniature: Rutger Hauer.
#16 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Dir. George Roy Hill (1969)
Starring in miniature Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
#17 Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Dir. Céline Sciamma (2019)
Starring in miniature: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel.
#18 Get Out, Dir. Jordan Peele (2017)
Starring in miniature: Daniel Kaluuya.
#19 Captain Fantastic, Dir. Matt Ross (2016)
Starring in miniature: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell.
#20 Moonrise Kingdom, Dir. Wes Anderson (2012)
Starring in miniature Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.
#21 Free Solo, Dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin (2018)
Starring in miniature Alex Honnold.
#22 The English Patient, Dir. Anthony Minghella (1996)
Starring in miniature Ralph Fiennes and Kirsten Scott Thomas.
#23 Goldfinger, Dir. Guy Hamilton (1964)
Starring in miniature Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton.
#24 Marianne And Leonard: Words Of Love, Dir. Nick Broomfield (2019)
Starring in miniature Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen.
#25 All About My Mother, Dir. Pedro Almodovar (1999)
Starring in miniature Cecilia Roth.
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