
The camera in this scene photographs the action from a distance, remaining fixed on its subjects, until a crucial line. The camera follows her and pans to the left of the living room, where she sits and speaks with Chris. The scene begins on the elevator as Chelsea walks in. The scene, which runs a little over five minutes, is photographed as one continuous take. The scene that we focused on is the heated discussion that Chelsea and Chris (Chris Santos) have in their living room, where Chelsea notes that she is going away for the weekend with a client. Chelsea’s apartment is one of the upper levels of the building and the unit takes up the entire floor. The floor plan provided is the actual floor plan of Chelsea’s apartment space. The building also has one passenger elevator and one freight elevator (which may have been used for the transportation of equipment) that open into each loft.
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The building, which is a nine-story pre-war loft building, was constructed in 1921 and consists of eight full floor loft units with one apartment per floor. In our research, we discovered that the apartment that Chelsea (Sasha Grey) lives in is located on 34 East 30th Street in Manhattan. In working with RED cameras and a production that filmed for a mere sixteen days in actual locations, Steven Soderbergh once again employed a rather quick workflow. The film, which had a budget of less than $2 million, consisted of a cast of non-professional actors and a crew of a dozen. The Girlfriend Experience can be seen as an exercise for both artists coming off his final film for the Ocean’s franchise as well as his ambitious two-part Che (2008) film, which runs over four hours, Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience is a small-scale low-budget film that runs a cool 77 minutes. In other words, both artists have maintained extremely prolific careers, working in numerous parts of their respective industries.


In the six years since has adopted digital filmmaking, he has worked rapidly and has released eight feature length films. In addition to the role he assumes as filmmaker, he also acts as cinematographer and editor on most of his projects. In his career, he has continuously been at the forefront of technology, becoming one of the first filmmakers that made the switch into digital. Steven Soderbergh has been the face of independent filmmaking, despite seamlessly shifting from independent and mainstream films. The filmmaker’s breakthrough film, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) contributed to the independent film revolution after he became the youngest filmmaker that won a Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes. Steven Soderbergh entered into the film industry in 1989 at the age of 26.
