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.
Director:
Writer:
Dean Stockwell
Narrator (voice)
Eadweard Muybridge
Self (archive footage)
Anje Bos
Model
Sharon Hagen
Model
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer -- Marriage Story
