Cinematic style of Christopher Nolan

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Christopher Nolan is a British and American filmmaker known for using aesthetics, themes and cinematic techniques that are recognisable in his work. Regarded as an auteur filmmaker, Nolan is partial to elliptical editing, documentary-style lighting, hand-held camera work, natural settings, and real filming locations over studio work. Embedded narratives and crosscutting between different time frames is a major component of his work, and his films often feature experimental soundscapes and mathematically-inspired images and concepts. Nolan prefers shooting on film to digital video and advocates for the use of higher-quality, larger-format film stock. He favours practical effects over computer-generated imagery, and is a proponent of theatrical exhibition, despite once humorously acknowledging "I'm as dependent on visual effects, probably more so than any other filmmaker out there." at the VES Awards in 2011. His work explores existential and epistemological themes such as subjective experience...

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