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Nolan without the digital safety net
Across eight features Christopher Nolan has kept as much of the image in the camera as production will allow, and the choice shapes far more than the look.
Building the shot instead of solving it
The folding Paris street in Inception, the rotating corridor, the water planet in Interstellar and the inverted car chase in Tenet were all staged physically first. The constraint is expensive and inflexible: a set that folds can only fold one way, so the shot has to be designed before it is filmed rather than assembled afterwards.