Biography

Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch-Indonesian filmmaker whose trilogy about Indonesia, The Eye of the Day, Shape of the Moon, and Position Among the Stars, has won many international prizes. His theoretical and practical film technique, single shot cinema, which involves long takes with a constantly moving camera is based on the film theories of André Bazin. He also invented a camera mount,
the SteadyWings, that allows extraordinary stability and maneuverability.