Photographer's Gaze
6 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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1:42:16Episode 1
Peeping Tom
Episode 1
Directed by Michael Powell • 1960 • United Kingdom
Starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna MasseyHaving 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...
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1:44:49Episode 2
The Story of O
Episode 2
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...
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Delirious
Episode 3
Directed by Tom DiCillo • 2006 • United States
Starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison LohmanHaving 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...
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Close-up
Episode 5
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1990 • Iran
Starring Hossein Sabzian, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mahrokh AhankhahInternationally 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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1:46:53Episode 6
La prisonnière
Episode 6
Directed by Henri Georges-Clouzot • 1968 • France
Starring Laurent Terzieff, Bernard Fresson, Elisabeth WienerThe 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...