One of the most thrilling scenes in recent cinema history comes not from a big budget Hollywood production but via independent documentary filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, directors of Gaucho Gaucho.
To capture the tremendous horsemanship of cowboys and cowgirls in a remote area of Argentina, Dweck and Kershaw wanted to film the gauchos galloping at great speed across the open range.
But pulling off a tracking shot of that nature required a Herculean effort. “First, we had to get a device to film that,” Dweck explains. “And there was only one guy that had that.
He was in Buenos Aires. He had a Polaris truck, like a four-wheel drive SUV. It’s like a Mad Max-mobile, with an arm and a gyro, very complicated machine.
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