His rotund bass-baritone belies his tiny stature, which was shaped by his mother's use of the drug thalidomide during pregnancy, and it occasionally takes on a grainy edge that suits the folkish nature of these songs.
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Produced by Nick Wechsler and Jed Alpert in the USA, it was one of the first larger budget films ( reportedly $ 5, 000, 0000 ) to use digital cameras for eventual blowup to 35 MM . Nossiter worked with Tommaso Vergallo ( also his chief image collaborator on " Mondovino " ), one of the founders of blowup pioneer Swiss Effects, to create a textured, 1970s'grainy edge look in the transformation from digital to film.