technology,photography,biography

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)

Poster for Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Thom Andersen
  • Profile picture of Dean Stockwell
    Narrator (voice) Dean Stockwell
  • Profile picture of Eadweard Muybridge
    Self (archive footage) Eadweard Muybridge

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Keywords

  • technology
  • photography
  • biography