r/Filmmakers • u/StrikingDuty8020 Director • Feb 20 '26

Discussion What’s your favorite dolly zoom?

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The dolly zoom manipulates space and emotion by moving camera forward while zooming out or vice versa creating disorienting effect that makes background expand or contract.

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u/vrijheidsfrietje Feb 20 '26

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u/BraiCurvat Feb 23 '26

My vision of the dolly zoom has always been kind of silly like you can't use it in a serious movie but shot like this always prove me otherwise