Jörg Widmer is one of the most important contemporary camera operators and cinematographers. Specialized in the use of the Steadicam, as camera operator or 2nd unit dop he was involved in movies such as Beyond the Clouds by Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni, Roman Polanski’s Oscar winner The Pianist, Wolfgang Becker’s cult Good Bye Lenin, Alejandro Iñárritu’s Babel, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, The Piano Teacher, The White Ribbon and Amour, all three directed by Michael Haneke and the latter two awarded by Cannes’ Palme d’Or, as well as the first season of acclaimed German Netflix series Dark. Among the movies he personally cinematographed, Wim Wenders’ two documentaries Buena Vista Social Club and Pina stand out; in the latter he shared credits with Helen Louvart, who had started the film. He started collaborating with Terrence Malick in 2004, serving as a Steadicam operator and 2nd unit director of photography first for The New World (2005), later for the Palme d’Or-winner The Tree of Life (2011) and the triptych To the Wonder (2012), Knight of Cups (2015), a metacinematographic work in which Malick made him also appear as an actor in the role of a photographer, and Song to Song (2017); whereas in these first five movies Emmanuel Lubezki was the main author of cinematography. In Malick’s actual latest movie A Hidden Life, presented in the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Widmer was the main cinematographer. Widmer has cinematographed also The Book of Vision, produced by Malick and directed by his disciple Carlo S. Hintermann, which opened 2020 Venice Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week, and has continued his collaboration with Malick also for The Way of the Wind, an upcoming project from the Austin based director centered upon Jesus Christ’s life and parables.