Christopher Nolan Shot ‘The Odyssey’ Entirely With Imax Cameras by Creating New Equipment So ‘You Can Shoot a Foot’ Away From an Actor’s Face and ‘Get Usable Sound’

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is making film history as the first narrative feature shot entirely with Imax cameras, and it’s all thanks in part to a child and a David Bowie song. The film’s cinematographer, Hoyte van Hoytema, revealed to Empire magazine that he shot Imax test footage of a kid reading Bowie’s “Sound And Vision” lyrics to prove whether or not Imax film cameras were advanced enough to record dialogue.

“I presented Chris with a very big close-up of a child on the IMAX screen, reciting David Bowie’s ‘Sound And Vision’ from a piece of paper,” van Hoytema said. “It was very touching: that level of intimacy in both image and sound, fused together, projected in the theatre.”

Nolan said the results were “electrifying,” adding: “We never would have been able to get those shots before.” The footage proved once and for all that…