From Director Steven Spielberg’s first ‘Spielberg Supercut’ looks at the director’s explorations of flight.

Though Spielberg’s actually scared of flying, his fascination with it can be seen in E.T. and Elliott’s passage across the moon, Peter Pan soaring through the clouds in Hook, and Jim’s manic reaction to the liberation of Soo Chow in Empire of the Sun.

Spielberg portrays flight as something wondrous, but at the same time laces that wonder with an unshakeable anxiety. This video, underscored by ‘Cadillac of the Skies’ from Empire of the Sun, attempts to convey both these opposing emotions.