Take A Hand In This Supercut Look At The Films Of Christopher Nolan

The question of whether or not Christopher Nolan is in fact an auteur is one best saved for another day, in my opinion. What’s harder to deny is that the British director is working from a thematically consistent framework, employing a recognizable set of motifs in pretty much everything he’s made thus far. There’s urban unrest, for instance, in the last two “The Dark Knight” films, the corporeal contortion of time and space in both “Inception” and “Interstellar,” and Michael Caine in pretty much everything else. But do you know what else Mr. Nolan likes to shoot in his films? Hands. That’s right: “Hands of Nolan” is a new video essay courtesy of Vimeo’s Jorge Luengo Ruiz that takes a good look at Mr. Nolan’s frequent and often unremarked-upon focus on the human hand.

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Scored to the soothing tones of a Mozart piano concerto and inspired by Kogonada’s “Hands of Bresson,” “Hands of Nolan” highlights every feature film in Nolan’s...