Film

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

7.3197559mDocumentary History

Director: Thom Andersen
Year: 1975

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.

Top cast

Dean Stockwell

Narrator (voice)

Anje Bos

Model

Sharon Hagen

Model

Directed by

Thom Andersen

Written by

Morgan Fisher, Fay Andersen, Thom Andersen

Produced by

Thom Andersen