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Photographer's Gaze

Photographer's Gaze

7 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

7 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...

  • Peeping Tom
    1:42:16
    Peeping Tom
    Episode 2

    Peeping Tom

    Episode 2

    Directed by Michael Powell • 1960 • United Kingdom
    Starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey

    Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic invest...

  • The Story of O
    1:44:49
    The Story of O
    Episode 3

    The Story of O

    Episode 3

    Directed by Just Jaeckin • 1975 • France, West Germany Starring Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier, Alain Noury

    Before there was FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, there was THE STORY OF O, the infamous adaptation of the controversial erotic...

  • Delirious
    1:46:45
    Delirious
    Episode 4

    Delirious

    Episode 4

    Directed by Tom DiCillo • 2006 • United States
    Starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman

    Having brilliantly lampooned the world of low-budget filmmaking in LIVING IN OBLIVION, director Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi reteamed for another wicked satire of the entertainment industry, prese...

  • Baba Yaga
    1:21:48
    Baba Yaga
    Episode 5

    Baba Yaga

    Episode 5

    Directed by Corrado Farina • 1973 • Italy Starring Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès

    Based on the notorious S&M comics of Guido Crepax, this psychedelic Euroshocker stars Carroll Bak...

  • Close-up
    1:37:55
    Close-up
    Episode 6

    Close-up

    Episode 6

    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...

  • La prisonnière
    1:46:53
    La prisonnière
    Episode 7

    La prisonnière

    Episode 7

    Directed by Henri Georges-Clouzot • 1968 • France
    Starring Laurent Terzieff, Bernard Fresson, Elisabeth Wiener

    The final film by director Henri-Georges Clouzot was also his only complete feature in color, and he makes wildly psychedelic use of the medium to tell this kinky, kaleidoscopically st...

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