Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (2014)

  • NR
  • 03/27/2014 (US)
  • Documentary, History
  • 59m

Overview

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.

Thom Andersen

Director, Writer

Fay Andersen

Writer

Morgan Fisher

Writer

Cast

Dean Stockwell's headshot

Dean Stockwell

Narrator (voice)
Eadweard Muybridge's headshot

Eadweard Muybridge

Self (archive footage)
Anje Bos's headshot

Anje Bos

Model
Sharon Hagen's headshot

Sharon Hagen

Model

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