Director Michael Apted — whose work has spanned features such as the James Bond filmThe World Is Not Enough and documentaries including the Up series — turns the camera on photographers and their lenses in his new documentary, Bending the Light, which is scheduled to premiere this weekend at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival.
Canon commissioned the documentary, in part to mark its production of lenses — it has produced more than 90 million of them, a statistic, it claims, that is higher than other lens manufacturers.
Apted had creative control over his unique look at Canon’s iconic lenses as he explored the art of photography through the words of photographers themselves, as well as through interviews with the craftspeople who lovingly make the glass at Canon’s Utsunomiya, Japan factory.
“I didn’t want to make it a technical film; I wanted to give it human context,” Apted tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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