The Cinematography Podcast
The Cinematography Podcast
The Cinematography Podcast
Never After Dark: filming a ghost story in Japan using camera magic
1 seconds Posted Sep 25, 2026 at 4:43 pm.
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Director Dave Boyle and DP Patrick Ouziel on making the ghost story Never After Dark in Japan: a 28-day shoot, a backlit zoetrope mirror, and in-camera magic.
Podcast highlights:
-How Boyle, fresh off the Netflix hit House of Ninjas, made the film in Japan. Cast and crew were locked in before the script was finished, a development cycle very different from what happens in Hollywood's.
-What it's like to shoot in a language you don't speak. Ouziel worked through a translator and alongside lighting director Hidenori Nagata, whose traditional fixtures and custom mirrors changed how he thinks about light.
-How they built the spinning, ghost summoning zoetrope mirror and captured its reflections in camera. With careful tests and planning, Ouziel filmed all the mirror shots exclusively with in-camera effects.
Never After Dark opens September 25 in New York and Los Angeles and expands nationwide October 9.
Find Never After Dark in theaters: https://www.magpictures.com/neverafterdark/
Find Dave Boyle: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2279419/
Instagram: @thedaveboyle
Find Patrick Ouziel: https://www.patrickouziel.com/
Instagram: @patrickouziel
Hear our previous interview with Dave Boyle on House of Ninjas: https://www.camnoir.com/ep254/
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