Sounds good, i love inventive camera work, and angles, as long as they aren’t too,outrageous and distracting. Another good technique that lends interest is reflections In puddles for say assault,scenes, or say a robbery sequence, with ripples disturb8ng the scene at just the right moment. Hitchcock was good at telling a story without actually seeing the violence outright- he used shadows very well to depict such scenes. I prefer that to,the outright Gore and graphic “shock value” scenes used in a lot of films
If you like windows, mirrors and reflections, it’s worth watching Columbus just for the cinematography. Kogonada is a reformed academic who was doing a dissertation on Ozu when he decided he wanted to make films, not just lecture and write about them. There’s an element in Columbus of someone getting his dissertation out of his system and most of the film theory stuff goes over my head, but the critics rave about it.
There’s some complicated camera work in After Yang that might interest you. There are scenes shot in real time involving characters interacting face to face. There are several conversations on ubiquitous telescreens. And there are scenes involving Yang’s memories, and these depict both Yang’s own memory and human characters’ parallel memories of the same events and conversations. These are all shot a bit differently.
I don’t speak the necessary photographic language to even begin to describe it, but there’s a lot of critical chatter about different aspect ratios. Differences in shading and image clarity are also apparent. Some of the scenes involve intricate cutting back and forth as Yang’s memory is being replayed concurrently with a human character’s memory of the same conversation, and the visual image shifts with each change in point of view. Kogonada is consistent in how he plays with the images. I’m not sharp enough photographically to follow it, but my sense is that the sharpest, clearest images are Yang’s own memories, unfiltered, because Yang’s psyche is the mystery that is being explored.
Anyhow, Kogonada made his reputation as a video essayist and has done a lot of work for the Criterion Channel. If cinematography is your thing, you might want to check him out. Here are some of his essays: http://kogonada.com/