Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Overview

Thom Andersen's 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.

Directed by Thom Andersen

Top cast

Dean Stockwell

Narrator (voice)

Eadweard Muybridge

Self (archive footage)

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Anje Bos

Model

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Sharon Hagen

Model

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