Photographer's Gaze

Photographer's Gaze

2 Episodes

The inextricable link between cinema and photography has long made the latter a subject of intense fascination for filmmakers, who have found in the adjacent medium a means to explore heady themes of voyeurism and obsession, perception and identity, and the relationship between art and reality. By turns provocative, perverse, and thrilling, these films reach deep into our compulsive relationship with images and, by extension, with cinema itself.

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Photographer's Gaze

2 Episodes

  • Rear Window
    1:52:31
    Rear Window
    Episode 1

    Rear Window

    Episode 1

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1954 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey

    Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers as a visual storyteller when he made this enduring suspense classic. James Stewart is L. B. Jeffries, an injured photojournalist confined to his...

  • Close-up
    1:37:55
    Close-up
    Episode 2

    Close-up

    Episode 2

    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1990 • Iran
    Starring Hossein Sabzian, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah

    Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CLOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant...

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