About

Cinefii was a small, English-language cinematography blog that ran from roughly 2012 to 2014. It was best known for the BiteSize Dailies — a series of short video interviews with leading Directors of Photography, recorded on the floor of the Plus Camerimage festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Across the run the site published interviews with Roger Deakins, Vittorio Storaro, Sean Bobbitt BSC, Bruno Delbonnel AFC ASC, Phedon Papamichael ASC, Vilmos Zsigmond ASC, Dante Spinotti ASC, Eduard Grau and others, alongside short-form reporting on cinematography hardware (most notably an early scoop on Panavision’s prototype 70mm digital camera, displayed at Camerimage 2012).

This site is an editorial revival of cinefii.com. The original site went offline, and unlike most domains we revive, no archived snapshots of its prose were available. The pages here have therefore been reconstructed not from preserved HTML but from third-party references — articles on No Film School, PremiumBeat, Slashcam, Cinescopophilia, Jonny Elwyn’s blog, and the festival circuit — all of which cited or quoted the original cinefii articles in their own coverage. The slugs and topics match what the original site published; the prose is new.

If you wrote for the original cinefii or have material from the original archive, we would like to hear from you.