Abstract

This video essay explores some aesthetic and ethical implications of the “follow shot,” a tracking shot that follows a human subject on foot from behind, as it is conspicuously employed in two films that depict human atrocities, Alan Clarke’s Elephant (1989) and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003).

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