Film & Media Studies | Gus Van Sant's Elephant and Alan Clarke's Elephant: The Follow Shot | Video Essay @filmandmediastudieschannel | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
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).