Among today’s crop of action talent, some fans who follow the genre on the big and small screen will know who fight coordinator and choreographer Vlad Rimburg (Contour, Osu, Unlucky Stars, Lucifer) is, and the work he’s accomplished since picking up a camera at the turn of the century; Stunt performer and independent filmmaker Emmanuel Manzanares made a multiple references to the internet action favorite in our interview last week.
The last five years have been an extraordinary thrill for us with stunt multi-hyphenate James Young being one of the biggest that Film Combat Syndicate covered in this site’s young life, and much credit goes out to Darren Bailey for being pivotal in engineering that for us for a 2014 sit-down with Young and fellow Marvel MCU cohort, Film Combat Syndicate favorite Aaron Toney.
One of these weekends I’m just gonna have to steal one for myself if I can help it. (P.S. – Literally be ready for anything when riding New York City transit. And I mean anything.)
Ben Jenkin and Solomon Brende demonstrate their freerunning skills with Atlas Cam equipment.
If you look at any fight scene from a film or an online test fight such as the ones I have hosted on this site, they all have their own flavor and vision as per their stunt coordinators and choreographers and directors. Such was the case for the latest online gem brought to you courtesy of Microdrones-pictures, a company best known for its high-flying style and vision of cinematography by way of stuntman and stunt coordinator Ferdi Fischer, whose latest experiment is now available online, simply called Atlas Cam Fight.
Assisted by fellow stuntman and cinematographer Daniel Leavitt, the new video’s main focus aisde from illustrating the action was to demonstrate just how Atlas works; Basically it’s a camera stabilizer that fits on the shoulder from the front to the back of its user. The result is what you see below, courtesy of director and fight choreographer James Young. And while this particular equipment isn’t used often in Hollywood, it makes one curious. Could this be the future of fight scene cinematography?
Check out the sampler below, featuring Brendon Huor, Travis Wong, Gui DaSilva and Mickey Facchinello, with Ben Jenkin and Solomon Brende. And to learn more about Microdrones-pictures, feel free to give their Facebook page a few minutes of your time.
The stunt community is chock full of talented and highly trained martial arts performers, each with their own stake and share of learning and practicing various elements of filmmaking. And with ten years and counting, Vladislav Rimburg is no exception.
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