Lubezki & Malick - a dogme

This is the series of parameters agreed by Terrence Malick and his DoP Emmanuel Lubezki for Tree of Life...

• Shoot in available natural light.
• Do not underexpose the negative. Keep true blacks.
• Preserve the latitude of the image.
• Seek maximum resolution and fine grain.
• Seek depth with deep focus and stop: "Compose in depth."
• Shoot in backlight for continuity and depth.
• Use negative fill to avoid light sandwiches (even sources on both sides)
• Shoot in crosslight only after dawn or before dusk; never front light.
• Avoid lens flares.
• Avoid white and primary colors in frame.
• Shoot with short focal length, hard lenses.
• No filters, except Polarizer.
• In the eye of the hurricane, shoot with steady handheld or Steadicam.
• Z-axis moves instead of pans and tilts.
• No zooming.
• Do some static tripod shots "in midst of our haste"
• Accept the exception to the dogma (a.k.a Article E) - Article E however does not apply underexposure of the negative.