Welcome to the official home of The Other Brothers! Academy of Art Animation Notes. Peg Bar and Grill. The Theatre. Animation World Network. Hitchcock’s "Rear Window," Recut Into An Amazing Panoramic View. Rear Window is, in my book, Hitchcock’s best film. It hooks you in immediately, trapped in the same sense of voyeuristic helplessness as Jimmy Stewart’s wheelchair-bound character who finds himself the witness to a murder in his own backyard. It’s also a film that draws much of its suspense from limited perspective--shots cropped by a telephoto lens, tiny snippets of isolated characters going about their days. So what would happen if someone came in and showed us the whole scene at once? How would the story change? Powered by After Effects and the patience of Job, Jeff Desom recut (and reshaped) Rear Window into one giant panorama. It’s shocking enough that Hitchcock shot the film in such a manner to make this reassembly possible.
“I was asked by a local (Luxembourg) venue to create a projection that could be looped on a very wide screen,” Desom tells Co.Design. It was a moment of inspiration that would prove punishing to actualize. _ I, pet goat II. Chris Cunningham.