Hideaki Anno
3 titles · japanese contemporary
Mecha as a clinical study of depression. Anno built Evangelion around a boy who does not want to be a hero, then kept rebuilding it for twenty-five years, each pass arguing with the last until the final film lets its characters leave.
Signature
- Giant robots filmed as trauma, not spectacle.
- Text cards, silence and held frames used at emotional peaks.
- Serial self-revision — the same story remade to answer itself.
- Interiority privileged over plot, to the point of abandoning it.
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
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