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  • Stanley Kubrick and “One-Point Perspective”

Pretty awesome super cut from kogonada on Stanley Kubrick’s use of one-point perspective.

For his latest supercut, new this morning, kogonada highlights Kubrick’s use of “one-point perspective,” which refers to compositions in which spatial planes converge at one vanishing point in the distance—such as in a shot down a long hallway, or over train tracks headed into the horizon. As the video highlights, Kubrick also tended to place his subjects right over that vanishing point, dead-center in the frame, making any symmetry (especially in creepy twins) particularly striking.

August 31, 2012
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