The actor admits that Soderbergh's unusual way of capturing the film — told from a ghost's point of view — was a challenge to get used to: "it took the first day of shooting and a mini panic attack."

Ever since seeing his 1989 directorial debut, Sex, Lies, and Videotape , Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan have been big fans of Steven Soderbergh’s film work. So when he rang up to pitch Presence , his first foray into horror,

Smart, concise, and wonderfully wrought as only director Steven Soderbergh can do, “Presence” is a modern ghost story with the director starring as the ghost. ‘Presence’ (IMDb)

The "Presence" director/editor/cinematographer/camera operator goes deep on how he cracked shooting an entire film from a ghost's POV.

The film stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, and Callina Liang, and explores themes of trauma, family dynamics, and the supernatural.

The entire film is shot entirely from the ghost's point of view, the audience haunting a family that has recently moved into a New Jersey home, not realizing that something was already living there. Critic Sean Burns says it's a great gimmick,

Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.

The intimate supernatural drama stars Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan as homeowners with an unexpected houseguest. With Presence, Steven Soderbergh Resurrects the Ghost Story: Review

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.”

“Presence” is a beautifully executed vision of a rather mediocre script. What makes it interesting is the POV “gimmick,” which Soderbergh demonstrates as a legitimate mode of cinematic storytelling. His camera movements take on such a human quality that we become emotionally connected to it as another character in the story.

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Moviefone speaks with Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan about Steven Soderbergh's 'Presence'. "It was really a dream come true working with Steven," Liu said. Moviefone recently had the pleasure of ...