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.
#21 Free Solo, Dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin (2018)
Starring in miniature Alex Honnold.
33points
#22 The English Patient, Dir. Anthony Minghella (1996)
Starring in miniature Ralph Fiennes and Kirsten Scott Thomas.
32points
#23 Goldfinger, Dir. Guy Hamilton (1964)
Starring in miniature Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton.
31points
#24 Marianne And Leonard: Words Of Love, Dir. Nick Broomfield (2019)
Starring in miniature Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen.
28points
#25 All About My Mother, Dir. Pedro Almodovar (1999)
Starring in miniature Cecilia Roth.
26points