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THEME EXPLORATION

zooming perspective

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Rashomon
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
2014 · Jonathan Glazer
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
1979 · Francesco Rosi
Faraway, So Close!
Faraway, So Close!
1993 · Wim Wenders
System
System
2026 · Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
HaHaHa
HaHaHa
2010 · Hong Sang-soo
La Belle noiseuse: divertimento
La Belle noiseuse: divertimento
1992 · Jacques Rivette
Little by Little
Little by Little
1970 · Jean Rouch
My Journey Through French Cinema
My Journey Through French Cinema
2016 · Bertrand Tavernier
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · Vincente Minnelli
Play of the Week: Rashomon
Play of the Week: Rashomon
1960 · Sidney Lumet
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Alfred Hitchcock → United Kingdom

Mastered the dolly zoom technique to create psychological disorientation and vertigo, making perspective itself a tool of suspense and fear.

Stanley Kubrick → United States

Obsessively used extreme wide-angle lenses and careful composition to manipulate spatial perception, forcing viewers into deeply unsettling architectural and perspective experiences.

Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union

Employed deep focus cinematography and extended shots to explore how perspective and distance shape human perception of memory, time, and spiritual space.

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