Photographer's Gaze

Photographer's Gaze

12 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. In REAR WINDOW, a photographer’s confinement to his apartment transforms him into an unwitting observer of his neighbors’ secret lives; in BLOW-UP, a fashion photographer inadvertently captures a potential crime; and ONE HOUR PHOTO hauntingly portrays a photo technician’s fixation with a family whose pictures unlock his deep isolation and yearning. 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

12 Episodes

  • Photographer's Gaze Teaser
    01:00
    Photographer's Gaze Teaser
    Episode 1

    Photographer's Gaze Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Blow-Up
    1:51:29
    Blow-Up
    Episode 2

    Blow-Up

    Episode 2

    Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1966 • United Kingdom Starring Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles

    In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London...

  • Eyes of Laura Mars
    1:43:28
    Eyes of Laura Mars
    Episode 3

    Eyes of Laura Mars

    Episode 3

    Directed by Irvin Kershner • 1978 • United States
    Starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif

    A Hollywood take on the Italian giallo genre, this stylishly suspenseful thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Laura Mars, a controversial high-fashion photographer whose sensational, erotic-violent po...

  • Peeping Tom
    1:42:16
    Peeping Tom
    Episode 4

    Peeping Tom

    Episode 4

    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 5

    The Story of O

    Episode 5

    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...

  • Pecker
    1:26:23
    Pecker
    Episode 6

    Pecker

    Episode 6

    Directed by John Waters • 1998 • United States Starring Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Martha Plimpton

    John Waters combines his trademark raunch with newfound sentiment in this sweetly kitschy,...

  • Smoke
    1:52:21
    Smoke
    Episode 7

    Smoke

    Episode 7

    Directed by Wayne Wang • 1995 • United States
    Starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing

    Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) is the owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the world—a place where all of humanity eventually parades through. Among those in...

  • Delirious
    1:46:45
    Delirious
    Episode 8

    Delirious

    Episode 8

    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 9

    Baba Yaga

    Episode 9

    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 10

    Close-up

    Episode 10

    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...

  • The Public Eye
    1:38:36
    The Public Eye
    Episode 11

    The Public Eye

    Episode 11

    Directed by Howard Franklin • 1992 • United States Starring Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Tucci

    Loosely inspired by the life of legendary New York City photojournalist Weegee—whose noirish portraits ...

  • La prisonnière
    1:46:53
    La prisonnière
    Episode 12

    La prisonnière

    Episode 12

    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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