DocumentaryHistory

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.

Credits

Dean StockwellNarrator (voice)

Eadweard MuybridgeSelf (archive footage)

Anje BosModel

Sharon HagenModel