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THEME EXPLORATION

macro photography

12 films · 1 director

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
Night Colonies
Night Colonies
2021 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Photograph
The Photograph
2008 · Hitoshi Yuho
12 Photographers
12 Photographers
1955 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
Birth of Light
Birth of Light
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami
La caméra de Claire
La caméra de Claire
2017 · Hong Sang-soo
From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
1969 · Mauro Bolognini
Little Adventure in Rome
Little Adventure in Rome
2018 · Paolo Sorrentino
Pecker
Pecker
1998 · John Waters
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Terrence Malick → USA

His films obsessively capture intimate close-ups of nature's smallest details—water droplets, leaves, light—treating macro observations as gateways to spiritual transcendence.

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