THEME EXPLORATION

photography and voyeurism

12 films · 3 directors
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 masterpiece 'Peeping Tom' explicitly confronts the voyeuristic nature of cinema itself through a protagonist who films his murders.

 Alfred Hitchcock United Kingdom

'Rear Window' makes the viewer complicit in voyeurism, using photography and observation as central to both plot and cinematic language.

 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy

'Blow-Up' explores how photography can distort reality and the obsessive act of looking, questioning what images truly reveal.