Three scenes, therefore, where imagination wins over representation; three moments, three keys which become locks, but which no present-day director would think of leaving out. On the contrary, he’d make them heavily explicit and, of course, banal. As a result of saying it can show anything, cinema has abandoned its power over the imagination.

—Chris Marker, the French New Wave director, on the use of ellision to spark the imagination in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo