I was able to watch all of this Japanese master filmmakers works at the Locarno Film Festival in 1979. Among his followers were Akira Kurusawa, George Lucas, Wim Wenders and Steven Spielberg. YASUJIRO OZU AND THE ENIGMATIC ART OF THE ‘PILLOW SHOT’ A “pillow shot” also called as static shot, is a cutaway, for no obvious narrative reason, to a visual element, often a landscape or an empty room, that is held for a significant time (five or six seconds). It can be at the start of a scene or during a scene. At a minimum, in Ozu’s work, these pillow shots inject a sense of calm and serenity and contribute to the elegant and stately pacing of his movies. But they may mean quite a bit more. A pillow shot serves as a visual “nonsense-syllable” or non sequitur that creates a different expectation for the next scene.
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