Sir Ridley Scott is not any stranger to experimental filmmaking, and the Blade Runner director has as soon as once more confirmed his willingness to go in opposition to the grain with a brand new brief movie shot totally utilizing the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely. 

The three-minute manufacturing is meant to showcase the S23 Extremely’s spectacular digicam capabilities. Along with boasting improved ‘Nightography’ powers over the Galaxy S22 Extremely, Samsung’s newest flagship packs an enormous 200MP sensor and built-in Skilled RAW taking pictures that helps as much as 50MP footage. 

Titled Behold and written by Luke Scott, the brief movie follows “a younger man, confronted by hostility and aggression, chased right into a world the place he’s compelled to search out his escape [and] his personal model of peace.” Test it out in 4K under:

Owing to its size (or lack thereof), Behold is clearly a extra meditative movie than others in Scott’s feature-length repertoire. Per a press launch despatched to TechRadar: “Behold refers to a maxim – magnificence is within the eye of the beholder, inviting the viewers to search out the glimmer of magnificence throughout the body of a difficult setting, searching for the worth in issues which were discarded.” 

As for a way Scott discovered the expertise of taking pictures with the Galaxy S23 Extremely, the director defined in a behind-the-scenes featurette (which we’ve embedded under): “I assumed it [was] an important problem. A really attention-grabbing problem. As a result of the scary factor is, this small object goes to take the place of all the large cameras, which is nice. And taking pictures on a telephone, we have been capable of entry actual environments and smaller areas.” 

Scott’s cinematographer on the undertaking, Flavio Labiano, added that though he “feared” the Galaxy S23 Extremely wouldn’t give him the “vary of choices [he normally has] out there when working,” he was “pleasantly stunned” by how versatile it was, praising the “high quality of picture and the dynamic vary of the sensor.”

After all, Behold was made utilizing a set of digicam mounts {and professional} lighting gear, however the truth stays that the Galaxy S23 Extremely is sort of actually among the many finest digicam telephones cash can purchase (its predecessor at present sits prime of our listing, but it surely’ll probably be dethroned as soon as we’re achieved testing the S23 Extremely). 

Large pictures, specifically, have an actual cinematic high quality in Scott’s brief movie, and the S23’s Extremely superior ‘Nightography’ capabilities over the S22 Extremely are plain to see all through. Check out a couple of stills from Behold under: 

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This is not the primary time Samsung has partnered with a famend filmmaker to point out off its newest handset. In 2021, Anna Karenina director Joe Wright launched an award-winning puppetry brief, Princess and Peppernose, which he shot totally with the Samsung Galaxy S21 Extremely. A separate S23-shot movie, from South Korean director Na Hong-jin, can also be on the way in which. 

Maybe, subsequent 12 months, we’ll see Scorsese take the Samsung Galaxy S24 for a spin?