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Bird's-eye View
The unusual angle of an amateur auteur
Travelogue 1949 11 mins
Overview
A new angle on London, Kew, Marseilles and Paris: every single shot of this experimental exercise is taken with the camera pointing downwards. The work of Matthew Nathan who over a 50-year period was a well-known exponent of ‘pro-am’ 16mm filmmaking: a true amateur auteur.
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