Robert Lepage is a renowned Canadian playwright, actor, film director and stage director from Quebec City. He has written, directed and acted in numerous plays and films since the 1980s. One of his most notable films is The Far Side of the Moon from 2003, which uses graphic matching between shots to smoothly transition between fantastical and realistic scenes. This technique creates a drifting atmosphere, such as linking a shot of Lepage looking through a washing machine window to him looking through the window of a spacecraft.

1. Robert Lepage

2. Robert Lepage , CC, OQ (born December 12, 1957 in Québec City) is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.

3. Past roles - ACTED IN 1989: Jésus de Montréal (segment "Desperanto") 1992: Tectonic Plates 1994: Bad Blood (aka Viper ) 2000: Stardom 2003: The Far Side of the Moon 2004: L'Audition 2006: No-Vacancy 2006: Dans les villes 2007: La belle empoisonneuse 2011: Mars et Avril (post-production

4. PAST ROLES – WRITER 1992: Tectonic Plates 1995: Le Confessional 1998: Nô 2000: Possible Worlds 2003: The Far Side of the Moon

5. PAST ROLES - DIRECTOR 1995: Le Confessional 1998: Nô 2000: Possible Worlds 2003: The Far Side of the Moon

6. I watched one of his films ‘the far side of the mood’ It was very interesting and was done in absolute perfection in terms of cinematography by the continuous use of graphic matching. Where shots would fade into a similar looking subject in the shot but keep the story on a flowing and smooth basis, Lepage cleverly used graphic matching mostly between the switch from a fantastical unreal scene to a scene of reality, but in such a delicate way that it continued through the film smoothly.

10. The 3 pictures you have just seen is an example of the clever graphic matching cinematography he uses in his film. The shot shows Lepages’ face looking through the glass of a washing machine window and then pulls away in the screen further away slowly, changing its angle and creating a drifting off effect. Before you know it the ‘washing machine’ he looks through turns into a space aircraft floating in space but still has Lepages face looking through the glass.

11. That is just one of many examples of Lepages’ use of cinematography and his clever usage of linking shots to create a drifting atmosphere of space.