Reviews & Coverage

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A filmmaker of rare patience and precision. Aguiar trusts his images the way great novelists trust sentences — each one earning its place, nothing wasted.

Sight & Sound·Elena Marchetti·January 2024

The Quiet Meridian announces a major talent. There is a stillness to Aguiar's camera that feels less like restraint than absolute confidence.

The Guardian·Peter Bradshaw·February 2023

His cinematography finds geometry in grief — a landscape that looks back at its characters as searchingly as they look at each other.

Variety·Jessica Kiang·January 2023

All Coverage

  • Sight & Sound10 Directors to Watch in 2024January 2024
  • The GuardianThe Quiet Meridian review — an assured and devastating debutFebruary 2023
  • VarietySundance 2023: The Quiet Meridian wins Grand Jury PrizeJanuary 2023
  • IndieWireHenry Aguiar on the five-year journey to The Quiet MeridianFebruary 2023
  • Little White LiesSalt & Thunder and the art of letting a landscape speak — interview with Henry AguiarSeptember 2022
  • CineuropaTribeca 2022: Best Cinematography awarded to Salt & ThunderJune 2022
  • Filmmaker MagazineShooting in 16mm: Henry Aguiar on the texture of memoryMarch 2020

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