Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Documentary, History | 1975-09-29 | United States of America

7.2 / 10

59 min.

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.