A photograph of Almodóvar's beloved mother, who died in 1999, now occupies the frame.
As Mussai notes, there "are several intertwining narratives – colonial, cultural and personal – embedded in these images, but what is often startling is how confident and self-contained many of the sitters are as they occupy the frame".
By the end, they occupy the frame together, opposing the forces that cross their paths.
The proportions are topsy-turvy but aside from that, the scenes look quite mundane, adding to their Amelie-esque magic touch; it's a world where everything has a place except for the humans who attempt to occupy the frame.
While the input consists of a continuous trail of frames, the output shows a regular discontinuity formed by blank spaces with an equivalent length of two thirds of a window-time, followed by a frame of 256 symbols occupying the remaining third of the window delayed one-window-time.
This creature, which occupies the entire picture frame and seems to be squeezed against its very edge, piling torment upon torment – is naked, helpless and on its knees.
Consider, instead, the ease of the boy's sneakers against the sidewalk; his shy, smirking confidence; the preternatural calm with which he occupies the space within the frame.
A cart now occupies the left foreground of the frame, and beside it stand two large bottles (Ozu's signature shapes).
Fox shot office life in wide format, using a strong and apparent flash, and from low angles so that her subjects towered over her, occupying most of the frame.
