The Camera Never Moves


All edits are sharp cuts. All the action takes place in a single frame. I don't think I've ever seen cinematography exactly like that before. Not since the silent film days, at least.

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Yes it is deliberatly made that way. Every scene is uncut so everything must work in that single take, resulting in as many as 214 re-takes for one scene (according to interview with Roy Andersson). Andersson is one of the most unique filmmakers of our time. I can only think of Alejandro Jodorowsky who is anything close to this (yet different)

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Andersson is one of the most unique filmmakers of our time. I can only think of Alejandro Jodorowsky who is anything close to this (yet different)


alejandro has surpassed this roy anderson is close to it.

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It moves a tiny bit in the horse scenes, if you look carefully.

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I'm guessing you didn't see Other Roy then

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Andersson is hardly the only filmmaker to do this. Jacques Tati utilized a similar technique in many of his films, as did Jarmusch in Stranger Than Paradise. Major long-take practitioners such as Chantal Akerman and Apichatpong Weerasethakul do as well. And of course there are plenty of Ozu films where the camera is entirely static, although he does cut within the shot.

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Well, then I have seen a few of them, just not as memorable as this one. Good to see the old masterpieces are not forgotten.

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The camera is not static in Stranger Than Paradise though, but each scene is in one take.

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