Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

November. 06,2015      NR
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Dean Stockwell as  Narrator (voice)
Eadweard Muybridge as  Self (archive footage)

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It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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