Reference: Gus Van Sant (dps: Savides, Doyle) (link)
The quieter films of Gus Van Sant are key references for Omission. Van Sant’s method is is symphonic: there is a slow accumulation of simple details which shift and accrue, bond and towards a climactic crescendo and then entropy and separate slowly at the end. This languid, steady tempo…
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Antonioni as a visual psychologist. He and his DPs architect frames which so effectively show you the internal dynamics of a character you wonder if any words should ever be spoken in a film. His films communicate a tone and a feeling that would be clumsy if not impossible to express in ways other than to just show them visually and aurally.
The final scene of L’Aventurra
The flag poles in L’Eclisse
The empty beginning and ending of L’Eclisse (start at 1:54)
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