"Over the course of several years in the mid-1870’s, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge set out to use still images to prove that a horse in motion was, at one point in its gait, airborne, with all four of its legs in the air at once. His revolutionary process, assembled from multiple still images that used electromagnetic tripwires to trigger his cameras that captured the horse’s stride in sequence, took years to perfect. The end result that has endured, a sequence…
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The Souvenir: Part II 2021
If Joanna Hogg's THE SOUVENIR is the story of a bad relationship as an impediment to creative flowering, THE SOUVENIR PART II is the acceleration of a creative life, a story of becoming by doing, the necessity of art making in the making of an artist. I love THE SOUVENIR, but I love PART II as much if not more. They are essential to one another, really one film, but PART II is a story of hope, paced beautifully, that…