Зеркало/Mirror, a 1975. art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky handled the issue by making the long takes, forcing the audience to catch up with all of the details and atmospheric balance around. His cuts are the most perceptible imageries ever seen in cinematography, hence the duration needed for making the whole picture makes a scene look dreamlike, metaphysical, disturbing…
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Un Chien Andalou, a 1929 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí
For hundreds of years, writers and playwrights tried to summarize the human experience and preserve the memory of love, hate, betrayal, failure or success. In the early twentieth century, filmmakers were strongly influenced by classical storytelling techniques frequently used in classic literature and theater, but the new medium demanded new ways of narration, simply because it imposed its own limitations
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David Lynch, an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer
The art of captivating an audience with a two-and-a-half-minute scene of a man sweeping the floors of the Roadhouse – and making it memorable – is what real cinematography is all about, and it’s one Lynch has mastered following his own gaze and spiritual callings. As over the top or downplayed as his eclectic mix of characters often are, he insists on the viewer’s investment – sometimes even by poking fun at them with a sense of humour only he fully understands
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