A video essay looking at the use of first-person camera to create a subjective point-of-view in cinema. 74 films featured in order of appearance:
Strange Days (1995)
Lord of War (2005)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Doom (2005)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)
Rear Window (1954)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Enter the Void (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Electricity (2014)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Maniac (2012)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Under the Skin (2013)
Lucy (2014)
Carrie (1976)
The Abyss (1989)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Halloween (1978)
Blow Out (1981)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Dear White People (2014)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Alien (1979)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Sinister (2012)
Gravity (2013)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Terminator (1984)
Robocop (1987)
Predators (2010)
Pitch Black (2000)
Iron Man 3 (2013)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Cloverfield (2008)
Kick-Ass (2010)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Alien 3 (1992)
Jaws (1975)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Day of the Jackal (1973)
American Sniper (2014)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1991)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Gangster No.1 (2000)
Leon (1994)
Three Kings (1999)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The French Connection (1971)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Incredibles (2004)
Back to the Future (1985)
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984)
Life of Pi (2012)
White Dog (1982)
The Amazing Spiderman (2012)
Look Who’s Talking (1989)

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