One of the first 16MM cameras that Maya Deren owned was bought on the second-hand market with hundreds of dollars left by her father after her death. The machine that was originally used to shoot newsreels during the war turned out to be a medium for Deren to break out of New York's underground movies.
Utilizing the "layered" structure of multiple dreams, each layer of dreams deforms the "story time" by geometric conversion. The issues discussed in the experimental short film "Melancholy Afternoon" written, directed and acted by Maya Deren, the flagship figure of American independent films in the 1940s-Whether director Nolan is willing or not, I think "Inception" was born in its 60th year Commercial Practices of Pre-Films.
Whether it is the image discussion of consciousness and subconsciousness, the structural expression of the layers, the application of gravity to the principle of time delay, "Inception" is only the "tip of the iceberg" of "Melancholy Afternoon", and a team of no more than 10 people used 14 "Melancholy Afternoon" produced by Tian Tian - space and time can be freely squeezed or extended, broken or continued, space and time are like being casted by magic, time can be long or short, space can be large or small; The time and space of "Dream Space" completely depend on theatrical arrangement to achieve the purpose of deformation. The concept and practice of "time and space" in cinematography can stand out!
