I'm really glad you re-posted that central paragraph, which is terrific.
Thank you. I wanted it not to disappear in the detritus of the internet.
I hadn't fully realized before how much of Kieślowski's work is devoted to nuanced explorations of the invasive cinematic eye (most insistently in Camera Buff, 1979) and various forms of voyeurism: auditory, in Red (1994); visual, in A Short Film About Love (1988); and anonymous intervention in a stranger's life, in The Double Life of Veronique (1991), among others. In all of those films he makes of the audience a collective voyeur, never more intensely than in A Short Film About Killing (1988).
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Thank you. I wanted it not to disappear in the detritus of the internet.
I hadn't fully realized before how much of Kieślowski's work is devoted to nuanced explorations of the invasive cinematic eye (most insistently in Camera Buff, 1979) and various forms of voyeurism: auditory, in Red (1994); visual, in A Short Film About Love (1988); and anonymous intervention in a stranger's life, in The Double Life of Veronique (1991), among others. In all of those films he makes of the audience a collective voyeur, never more intensely than in A Short Film About Killing (1988).
This sounds like the seed of an essay.