These mind-bending photos bring Inception to life in Russia

A Russian production studio has recreated the gradually folding cityscapes of Christopher Nolan’s Inception against the backdrop of the country’s most famous landmarks.

​Led by studio founder Artem Prudentov, the team created the mind-bending images by programming their drones to take multiple sweeping shots of the landscape in semi-automatic mode. Honing the final result meant taking thousands of shots in a bid to get the programming just right.

Each individual image took 12 hours of work to complete, says Prudentov. “The resulting images look majestic,” he says. “It creates a feeling of huge divide between the forces of nature and those of man.”