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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 masterpiece 'Peeping Tom' directly confronts the voyeuristic nature of cinema through a killer who films his victims, making the audience complicit in the act of looking.

Brian De Palma → United States

Repeatedly explores the ethics of observation and voyeurism through surveillance, photography, and the male gaze, particularly in films like 'Body Double' and 'Blow Out.'

David Cronenberg → Canada

Examines technology's role in creating and distorting perception in works like 'Videodrome' and 'Crash,' where the act of witnessing becomes physically and psychologically transformative.

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