Being in the dark creates a tightly heightened intimacy that can amplify irritants, too, such as the glow of phones.
The end result is a merging of documentary and portraiture that shares the sense of heightened intimacy that all of Penn's great portraits possess.
The strange atmosphere of banality and heightened intimacy is sustained throughout, further evidence of Soth's meticulous editing and his almost writerly understanding of how to sustain a mood.
Charlie Rose, the Emmy Award-winning journalist, is doing away with the black backdrop that creates a sense of heightened intimacy on his PBS talk program and letting a live audience join him in Dallas for a discussion with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the 3rd child of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Rory Kennedy, the 11th.
Bravo's shorts employ the visual grammar of art-house cinema: over-the-shoulder shots representing a character's point of view, handheld tracking shots depicting urgent movement, lingering closeups to heighten intimacy or unease, carefully composed establishing shots with an actor in the center of the frame.
The us-against-the-world syndrome is a necessary part of the job of getting a show on, and in all the excitement and heightened intimacy it is all too easy to forget that the friendships will, for the most part, lose their raison d'etre once the curtain has fallen for the final time.
The pair named their new joint venture Dame Products and embarked on a Star Trek-inspired mission: to design well-engineered sex toys, to heighten intimacy, and to openly empower the sexual experiences of womankind.
Moving forward, Fine and Lieberman are focused on keeping up with Eva's demand and continuing to open a dialogue about sexual equality and heightening intimacy -- Cyborgs not allowed.
Wisely, this set will emphasize both, and the spectacular Town Hall sound system will heighten the intimacy.
The storm and steel of combat lasts only a few pages, but it fastens Bowman to an idea – an ideal almost – of all-consuming action that his subsequent, less eventful existence will only recapture in moments of heightened physical intimacy.
