It's much more telling that he cannot really put this in to words, hopefully he has some ideas that can be shown as proof of concept, but, unless there is a change in the way film is interacted with, in the hardware sense (VR or some such, which would allow a shift in film-making altogether), it would just be kind of gimmicky.

Perception is kind of the name of the game in filmmaking, especially amongst those that are "experimental". While there may be some science or data behind it, I think many filmmakers/directors/cinematographers have approached this quite a bit over the years. Disparaging Film altogether because of blockbusters isn't really fair. Plenty of those directions follow a canon in many aspects, such as storytelling, if they want to make a low-risk film that has broadest appeal.

This is a bit of stretch, i suppose, but Tarkovsky is one of my favorite directors and he does these long shots (especially of houses on fire, for some reason) that I drive a mood home, and then subvert it. I get lost in the shot itself, watching new things appear before I even realize it, or the characters shrinking away, unrecognizable.

It sounds interesting, but I kinda just want to see what he has to show for it.