Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography boasts a bounty of treasures, but one of his most impressive works is undoubtedly Rear Window. If you’ve never seen it, I must implore you to move the film to the top of your Netflix queue right this moment. Besides the excellent story construction and acting, the thriller is a technical marvel. The majority of the film is seen through the Peeping Tom eyes of Jimmy Stewart, and Hitchcock constructed an enormous exterior building set in order to put the audience right in Stewart’s shoes. What results is a film experience unlike any other, much more akin to watching an extremely well choreographed play (Noises Off, anyone?) than a movie.
A glorious piece of art has been put together using Hitchcock’s classic, as Installation artist Jeff Desom put his Adobe After Effects knowledge to good use in order to create a single-shot edit of the film. It’s a gorgeously stunning piece of work that gives us a fascinating alternate view of Rear Window, and it makes me want to revisit the film as soon as possible. Hit the jump to check it out.
More info on this piece can be found at Desom’s site. Thanks to The Playlist for the heads up.
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My mind was blown twice as a result of this post. Once from how difficult it continues to be to watch videos/do anything on Collider pages with the abundance of ads, and a second time as a result of what I came here for- an amazing timelapse. I’m not quite sure how it was done but it is beautiful.
That was amazing, I didn’t know After Effects could do something like that…
Holy crap that was amazing!
That was really impressive! Incredible, Jeff Desom!
WOW
That. Was. AWESOME.
I loved this movie growing up only cause my mom watched it so much!