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Alec
Hirschfeld The Cinematographer Hirschfeld plans to continue directing and shooting documentaries, and concentrating on handling second unit camera work on features. He says having his film included in the ICG Film Showcase is a great compliment for a solely visual piece accompanied only by music and voice tracks. The Film Accabonac Harbor is an unscripted, eight-minute documentary that offers a visual impression of a wetland area near Hirschfeld’s home in East Hampton, New York. He says his reason for making the film was simply to share his appreciation of a beautiful place. He used his own vintage 1962 Mitchell R-35 camera loaded with various
film stocks to record the wind, tides and seasons that visually express
the beauty of the harbor. Accabonac Harbor screened at the 2002 Hampton
International Film Festival and found distribution as a result.
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Alec Hirschfeld
is a native New Yorker who graduated from New York University School
of the Arts. He was attracted by both the science
of recording analog images on film negative and the power of having
those pictures projected on large screens in movie theaters. His
dad, Gerald Hirschfeld, is a retired cinematographer who taught him
about cameras and film early in life. He has worked on crews with
many “great” directors of photography including Michael
Chapman, ASC, Adam Greenberg, ASC, Geoffrey Erb, ASC, Robbie Greenberg,
ASC and Ken Kelsch, ASC among others.