At 12 pm on Wednesday afternoon at Universal CityWalk theater, the massive auditorium that handles IMAX 70mm screenings was nearly at capacity. The audience wasn’t there for the current box office champ, Project Hail Mary, or a re-release of Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning Sinners. Instead, they had assembled for an independently made short film.
Gus Bendinelli, a career cinematographer with a side passion for rare celestial events, is behind Eclipse, a real-time rendering of the 2024 total solar eclipse, shot for IMAX 70 mm projection.
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“I feel crazy saying that I directed this,” jokes Bendinelli after Wednesday’s screening. “I got there and I rolled. I wasn’t like, ‘Alright, let’s do it again!’”
But it was the getting there that was really the hard part. It took two years, some very rare camera equipment and a couple thousand miles worth of driving before
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