Movements of Memory

This side-by-side comparison highlights how 20th Century Women uses zooming and camera movements as a process of exploration of memories.

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Mills’ Oscar-nominated screenplay does a deft job of navigating these at-times complementary, at-times conflicting perspectives, but it isn’t just in words that his film deals with the movement of memory, the visuals as well serve as echoes of one another, as proven by this eloquent montage edited by Alice Sanna.

In this brief video Sanna has collected reflexive images from the film and set them side-by-side for comparison. Notice how in many of these shots, the motion of the camera in one is opposed by the motion in the other; one zooms in, the other pulls back, one pans left, the other pans right. This is a subtle and graceful directorial technique that many might have missed, but fortunately for them there’s the sharp, erudite eye of Sanna to capture it.

Source: Film School Rejects

a subtle and graceful directorial technique that many might have missed, but fortunately for them there’s the sharp, erudite eye of Sanna to capture it.H. Perry Horton, Film School Rejects