Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
4/5 (1 ratings)
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.
This film isn't available in your country, but many other great films are.