News: Is this the future of all cinematography!?

Short answer to your question my friend is No.

The long answer is also no, but this is stunning stuff, just as a quick explanation you will notice there are absolutely no shots of a close-up human face moving. That is and always will be the most important job of a cinematographer, capturing human emotion and expression, until then we all have onset jobs for a very very long time.

Continuing my point and notto take anything away from this work, it is fantastic, but it should be noted it is very carefully crafted to allow for most of the shots to be on still objects. In fact most of the shots are for all intensive purposes pan and scans of what are basically still 3D models of inorganic objects minimally animated . As cinematographers our craft is one of motion photography and while stunning, this work does not really capture motion in the frame (I am making a distinction between camera motion and subject motion here) can this recreate an animal running (the birds are nice, but very small and would I suspect suffer greatly on a large screen), a lovers quarrel, a sporting event?

As technicians we must be aware and excited about all new developments in cinema, this included, but let us not be blinded by the toys of the trade. While audiences still hunger for humanity in motion, whether documentary or narrative, a camera system that captures people in real spaces having real interactions will always be in demand and a cinematographer needed to oversee it.