Reed Morano, A.S.C.

director/EP @HANDMAIDSONHULU PILOT + eps. 2&3 • @MEADOWLANDfilm & I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW //@itwanmovie • THE RHYTHM SECTION

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

@JustineBateman @sonyxperia Everyone’s selling out and it’s not even better. It looks like ass.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

.@sonyxperia, I think your "Intelligence" and "expressive options" are broken. Looks like all you did was overexpose what someone intended to take a picture of. Your AI sucks.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

IF YOU READ ONE THING TODAY & ITS NOT A BOOK, IT SHOULD BE THIS.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

@effthealgorithm I WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND. OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Just a reminder that an “organics stamp” for human-made, non-AI films and series exists. Go to https://t.co/tb0RqU3EN9 for more info.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Here it is guys.
For every one of you who has said they have nothing new to watch. We spent months finding you great, fresh films to see. No box-checking, no reboots, no AI. Just fresh. new films hand-picked for you.
https://t.co/SrGsrFZrhD
We're taking #MakeNewFilms seriously.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

https://t.co/1iYoi91vF8

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

What's most interesting to me is the language used, here and by many Tech Bros, re: AI.
"We have to..." "Don't be left behind..." "You're not keeping up..." "Going to make your life easier and better..." "You have to understand..." "We have to use it."
Patently ridiculous language.
No one "has to" use anything. Everyone is on their own path and no one is "being left behind" at any point.
Use of this type of language is nothing but an attempt to introduce fear and a lack of choice to you.
You have nothing to fear, and you have free will, always.
That is never not true. Never.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

https://t.co/626U5WehKd

[Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks]

Defending Your Life was released 35 years ago today!! I think I've conquered at least half of my fears.

[CREDO23 @_CREDO23_]

CREDO 23 Film Festival is in 10 DAYS. 3/27-29. LA, CA. Come hang out with us!
Get your passes for fresh, new films & also films/Q&As from award-winning filmmakers, Sean Baker, Reed Morano, Matthew Weiner, & Cassian Elwes! @Lilfilm @reedmorano @cassianelwes https://t.co/eZVRvs0SEW

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

@Thebiglade Yes

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Ok. I was really caught off guard here. I did not expect my visceral reaction to this message from James Vanderbeek.

Do yourself a favor and listen. Just listen. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

RIP James, God speed🙏🏼

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

…it felt so unreal. I loved them so much. They were so full of love. I wish I'd just wake up from whatever this insanity is and I could call & hear his voice say "hiliii Reeeeed.." again.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

Unfathomable. Rob was the first hero of mine who walked out of my 'film dreams' & into my actual life. Stars aligned, he plucked me out of indie film obscurity & without hesitation took a chance on me to shoot his films. He got me into local 600 with my first union feature …

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

I'II never forget how he'd silent laugh & elbow me, while pointing at the monitor or in my periphery I'd notice him acting out every line, mouthing along with the actors, complete with full expressions & low impact gesticulations, as we were rolling. I often pinched myself,

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

I was so proud he dubbed me the ‘human Steadicam' when I'd shoot handheld for him...Rob's belief in me gave me my confidence. The day we met, after 30 mins of pitching, in the room-he said to me "Let's do this." He was the fastest decision maker in the biz.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

To be that lucky to work alongside him everyday for many years. My mentor. One of the greatest things he used to say was "I hire the people who know more than me & then I listen to them." He would tell me WE were the experts. But Rob it was you-YOU were the genius. Unparalleled.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

My heart aches for Romy, Jake, the family, their friends. Rob was a magical genie who changed the course of my life. His movies shaped me as a kid, then he shaped me as an adult, on set - What a beautiful dream to call him my friend, my director-

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

Michele was human sunshine who boosted me up when the going got tough. She absolutely radiated positivity & love onto everyone. God I have so many priceless Rob quotes... the world feels darker now, a lot emptier -hollow, without them in it.

[Reed Morano, A.S.C. @reedmorano]

He asked me to shoot his next feature that his son Nick wrote, but I was directing my first feature & the timing conflicted.
It was a hard to say no to Rob- he got sad. I would've kept shooting with him if I could.