Last March, editor Jacob T. Swinney made an engaging video that splices together the first and final frames of 55 films. Inspired by Swinney’s video, copywriter and film student Miguel Faus made his own: The Start of an Ending—First and Final Frames. 75 pairs of frames expands on the idea: “What can we learn about these particular films and, more importantly, about the art of cinema?” Faus asks.
Faus’s selection seems to focus more on stories about individuals, where Swinney’s spotlighted many visually striking films. This focus on characters draws a special connection between the first and last shots almost as if, decontextualized, they tell their own stories. Both, however, prove the cinematic art to be geometric: parallel visual patterns in scenes cut like two sides of an equation stress the importance of actual physical direction in every decision made by a filmmaker. Watch The Start of an Ending—First and Final Frames below:
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