10 Outstandingly Beautiful Cinematic Single Frames

9. The Fourth Dimension - Interstellar (2014)

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Never has the fourth dimension been rendered both so lucidly, coherently and so beautifully (sorry, Cube 2: Hypercube, your questionable CGI let you down big time).

In Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey's Cooper finds himself in a tesseract, in the space between or outside of time, able to communicate through the past with Morse code dust (it's a whole thing) while traversing a series of stretched bookcase-like four dimensional objects that bear some resemblance to the threads of a weaver's loom.

Though the shot - and, indeed, the frame - may look computer-generated, this is only partially the case. Though enhanced by CGI, Director Christopher Nolan actually strung McConaughey from the ceiling in a huge, specially constructed set.

What we are left with is a scene, a shot and, within them, a single frame - like a moment in time, strangely enough - that deftly and beautifully embody the dimension and Nolan's thematic, narrative and visual approach.

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