What kind of technique is timeless setting?

It is a cinematography technique. Related cinematography techniques include 360-Degree Pan, Real Locations as Character, Handheld Cinema Vérité.

Cinematography technique · used in 1 film

Timeless Setting

Mixing cars, technology and decor from different decades so the film can't be pinned to 1 year. The world feels like a memory or a dream.

Examples

It Follows
David Robert Mitchell · 2015
The TVs are old sets showing black-and-white movies, and the cars come from several eras. Yara reads on an e-reader that is really a 1960s shell-shaped makeup compact. Mitchell said he didn't want any object that would date the film. Like a nightmare, it seems to happen in no particular time.
Where to see it: Yara's e-reader. Throughout the film, Yara reads Dostoevsky's The Idiot aloud to her friends from the shell-shaped device.

Questions

What is timeless setting in film?: Mixing cars, technology and decor from different decades so the film can't be pinned to 1 year. The world feels like a memory or a dream.
Which films use timeless setting?: It Follows (2015).
What kind of technique is timeless setting?: It is a cinematography technique. Related cinematography techniques include 360-Degree Pan, Real Locations as Character, Handheld Cinema Vérité.

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