Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner, the best use of DV I've ever seen. The cinematography is breath-taking. How many DV-shot films can you say that about?

that was DV, wow, sure fooled me.

Lovely and Amazing was shot on digital video.

I watched it over the weekend, and was very impressed with the how un-digital it looked.

If I didn't know it was shot digitally before hand, I would've thought it was shot on film.

For practical discussion 24p HD is most certainly DV, as it is one of many digital video formats. It is referred to as such in any professional context, and both Sony and Panavision define the format on which their current HD camera systems are built as "high-definition 24p digital video".

I read an interesting interview with Atanarjuat's DP - they made a conscious choice to shoot on video and set out to get the best equipment to do so, rather than choosing video over film because it's cheap and fast. That probably has something to do with the quality of the results. Even more surprising is that the video-to-film transfer was NTSC -> film, rather than PAL -> film.

The DP was pretty disparaging towards the Dogme group - he thinks they give DV a bad name.

Did Atanarjuat's filmmakers choose DV because it works better in super low temperatures where celuloid might have problems?

Definitely. I read that in an interview last year.

Also, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami has made the switch to DV, prefering the intimacy afforded to the reduced size. His last two were in DV, I believe: the documentary ABC Africa and Ten.

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