7:30 p.m.	Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer Thom Andersen (U.S., 1975)

Andersen's stunning first feature film is the definitive exploration of the life and work of Muybridge. Jonathan Rosenbaum has called it "one of the best works of film history ever committed to film—an admirably economical and ingenious documentary exploring the philosophical, sociological, scientific, aesthetic, optical, technical, and theoretical implications of Muybridge's motion studies without belaboring any of them" (Chicago Reader).

• (60 mins)

Preceded by shorts:

Melting (Thom Andersen, 1964–65, 6 mins): A time-release record of a strawberry sundae. Olivia's Place (Thom Andersen, 1966, 6 mins): A portrait of a diner in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, in the winter of 1966. — ——— (Thom Andersen, Malcom Brodwick, 1966–67, 11 mins): A documentary about rock'n'roll. “— ——— is a highly charged and innovative collage film composed of beautifully recomposed partially found sound materials and strikingly original footage. It serves both as a prescient document of Los Angeles's Sunset Strip and the pop scene of the 1960s and as a highly combustible formally innovative film built upon metric-iambic strategies. A sensational and pioneering example of what could be (but has never before been called) ’Pop Structuralism.'”—Mark McElhatten, Rotterdam Film Festival



(Total running time: 83 mins, Color, 16mm, From the artist)