Floating layers effect

A wide street pulls apart into slabs with visible gaps. a wide shot of an ordinary street separating into four flat slabs of depth, pavement and railing on the front slab, parked bicycles on the second, shopfronts with blank frontages on the third and rooftops on the last, each drifting apart with clean cut edges and open gaps, a walking figure continuing along the front slab, camera sliding right so the slabs pass at different speeds

Hill ridges separate into stacked planes with air between them. a wide landscape of receding hill ridges separating into six flat slabs with visible air and shadow between them, the nearest slab drifting down and the furthest drifting up so the stack fans open, the cut edges catching the low sun along their thickness, haze remaining correct on the far slabs, slow crane up across the fanned stack

The front slab lifts forward and shows the plane behind it. a close shot of a plastered wall with a hanging plant, the front slab carrying the plant peeling forward off the wall plane like a card lifting, a hard shadow of the slab sweeping across the plaster left behind, the exposed plane showing the same plaster continuing where the plant used to be, the slab thickness visible along its edge, side light raking, slow drift

Falling rain passes between the slabs rather than over them. a close shot of a garden scene separated into three flat slabs, rain falling through the frame and passing into the open gaps between the slabs instead of running down them, drops landing and darkening only the surface of the slab they hit, the middle slab drifting slowly forward while rain crosses in front of and behind it, overcast light, camera holding still

A standing figure, a chair and a wall pull apart with gaps between. a person standing in front of a chair against a painted wall, the frame separating into three flat slabs of depth, the figure on the front slab, the chair on the middle one and the wall at the back, each slab pulling apart with visible cut edges and open gaps between them, the figure still breathing on its own slab and casting a shadow onto the slab behind, slow push in

Separated layers glide together and the seams disappear. four separated flat slabs of a quiet bedroom scene floating apart in black space, then gliding back toward each other in sequence, the furthest settling first, each seam closing with a small shift until the slabs form one continuous photographic frame again with no visible cut lines, soft lamp light appearing complete only once the last slab lands, locked camera

A move threads between the separated slabs and out the far side. a wide shot of a forest scene separated into seven flat slabs, the camera moving forward and threading through the open gaps between them, passing the cut edge of each slab close enough to show its thickness, tree trunks on each plane sliding past at their own speed, dappled light on every slab face, continuous forward dolly out the far side into plain black

A sideways camera move separates near and far layers by speed. a market alley separated into five flat slabs of depth, the camera sliding steadily to the right so the nearest slab travels fast across frame, the middle slabs slower and the furthest almost still, the cut edge of each slab visible as a clean vertical lip with thickness, small gaps opening and closing between them as they pass, flat afternoon light

Floating room slabs slide back together around a seated person. a wide shot of a seated person surrounded by floating flat slabs of their own room, the slabs sliding back into place around them one at a time, walls first, then the window plane, then the foreground table, each seam closing tight until the room is a single continuous photographic interior and the person has not moved, warm daylight completing as the last slab lands, static wide camera

A person steps through the gap from one depth plane to the next. a person standing on the front slab of a two-slab separation, stepping sideways off its cut edge and across the open gap onto the rear slab, their shoulder passing in front of the rear slab edge and then behind the front one, both slabs showing plain thickness at the cut, a bare studio black beyond the gaps, low camera, static