Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975 en 59 minutes

Rating: 7.2

Plot

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.

Trailer

Cast

Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell

Narrator (voice)

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge

Self (archive footage)

Anje Bos

Anje Bos

Model

Sharon Hagen

Sharon Hagen

Model

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