What is deep imagery and what is flat imagery when speaking about cinematic art? Here is a brief introduction:
http://www.16-9.dk/2023/04/the-wonder-of-illusory-depth-cues/
The video essay is one of many that we at 16:9 film journal are publishing in our 20th anniversary year. Congratulations to us - and to you who can now enjoy solid and sober film criticism.
169 Seconds: The Wonder of Illusory Depth Cues - the use of depth cues in the opening scene of Sebastian Lelios The Wonder - 16:9 filmtidsskrift
In Sebastian Lelios The Wonder from 2022 the initial camera movement quite literally takes us from the film studio where the film is shot and into the world of the English nurse Elizabeth Wright in 18th century Ireland. Do you wonder how?
