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THEME EXPLORATION

photography and voyeurism

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Shadows from Light
Shadows from Light
1983 · Stephen Dwoskin
Yi Yi
Yi Yi
2000 · Edward Yang
Palermo Shooting
Palermo Shooting
2008 · Wim Wenders
2020
2020
2020 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet
1986 · David Lynch
Captive
Captive
2008 · Gus Alvarez
Rear Window
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
The Photograph
The Photograph
2008 · Hitoshi Yuho
Parallel Tales
Parallel Tales
2026 · Asghar Farhadi
Blow-Up
Blow-Up
1966 · Michelangelo Antonioni
12 Photographers
12 Photographers
1955 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
Birth of Light
Birth of Light
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Powell and Pressburger → United Kingdom

His film 'Peeping Tom' (1960) directly confronts the voyeuristic act of cinema itself through a protagonist who photographs women while committing murder, making the camera an instrument of transgression.

Alfred Hitchcock → United Kingdom

'Rear Window' (1954) implicates both the protagonist and audience in voyeurism, using photography and observation as central metaphors for cinema's complicity in invading private spaces.

Michelangelo Antonioni → Italy

'Blow-Up' (1966) explores how photography fragments reality and creates obsessive surveillance, questioning what can be known through the camera's gaze and the photographer's subjective interpretation.

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