The visionary director made his debut with his student thesis, a stunning experimental documentary, Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
Eadweard Muybridge portrait from the Library of Congress
In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, it was released on home video in 2016 by Cinema Guild.
Cast
Eadweard Muybridge as Himself
Dean Stockwell as Narrator
Credits
Directed, produced by Thom Andersen
Written by Fay Andersen
Cinematography, editing: Morgan Fisher
Music by Mike Cohen
Eadweard Muybridge (1975): Thom Andersen’s Experimental Docu about English photographer
50 Years Ago
The visionary director made his debut with his student thesis, a stunning experimental documentary, Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, it was released on home video in 2016 by Cinema Guild.
Cast
Eadweard Muybridge as Himself
Dean Stockwell as Narrator
Credits
Directed, produced by Thom Andersen
Written by Fay Andersen
Cinematography, editing: Morgan Fisher
Music by Mike Cohen
Production company: UCLA
Distributed by New Yorker Films
Release date: 1975
Running time: 59 minutes