Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
MovieTitle | Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer |
User score | 7.2 |
Release date | Sep 29, 1975 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Thom Andersen |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | University of California Los Angeles |
Run time | 59 min. |
Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.