--- title: French Photographer Uses iPhone to Recreate Movie Scenes: Photos description: A totally surreal use of technology canonical: https://time.com/3731630/photographer-iphone-movie-scenes/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-04T17:12:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:22.640Z og:title: This Artist Uses His iPhone to Recreate Iconic Movie Scenes og:description: A totally surreal use of technology og:url: https://time.com/3731630/photographer-iphone-movie-scenes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Artist Uses His iPhone to Recreate Iconic Movie Scenes twitter:description: A totally surreal use of technology twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Artist Uses His iPhone to Recreate Iconic Movie Scenes by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) and [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) Mar 4, 2015 5:12 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) and [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) Mar 4, 2015 5:12 PM UTC French artist Francois Dourlen has proven that iPhones are good for so much more than Snapchat and Candy Crush. He uses his device to reimagine famous movie scenes with clever visual trickery, resulting in a series of stunning photographs. Dourlen pulls up stills from films ranging from _Rambo_ to _Up_ on his screen, and then carefully overlaps them with everyday real-life scenes to create entirely new, surreal images. See more of Dourlen’s work on his [Instagram](https://instagram.com/francoisdourlen/) or his [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/lesphotosdefrancois). ### _The Lion King_ ### _The Avengers_ ### _Puss in Boots_ ### _Return of the Jedi_ ### _Forrest Gump_ ### _Up_ ### _Superman_ ### _The Lion King_ ### _Big Hero 6_ ### _Ted_ ### _Back to the Future_ ### _Dumb and Dumber_ ### _The Lord of the Rings_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3731630/photographer-iphone-movie-scenes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3731630/photographer-iphone-movie-scenes/"},"headline":"This Artist Uses His iPhone to Recreate Iconic Movie Scenes","datePublished":"2015-03-04T17:12:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:22.640Z","description":"A totally surreal use of technology","url":"https://time.com/3731630/photographer-iphone-movie-scenes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3731630/photographer-iphone-movie-scenes/","name":"This Artist Uses His iPhone to Recreate Iconic Movie Scenes"}}]}] ```