To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism

To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism

2026
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Overview

This essay film explores the camera as an extension of the human gaze, tracing the shifting relationship between the act of looking, the spectator, and the figure behind the lens. Moving through and between Blow-Up and Peeping Tom, the film observes how photographing, filming, and enlarging images become gestures of desire, control, and uncertainty. By revisiting these modernist works, the essay reflects on the psychological dimensions of image-making and the fragile boundary between observer and observed, opening a path toward a meditation on cinema’s power to question its own gaze.

Status: Released

Budget: $200

Language: EN

Production Information

Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date June 12, 2026
Status Released
Language EN

Cast

Karlheinz Böhm
Karlheinz Böhm

David Hemmings
David Hemmings

Key Crew

Pourya Moradi
Writer