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Marc Shaffer

Exposing Muybridge

Director Marc Shaffer Composer Chad Cannon Cast Gary Oldman, Marta Braun, Philip Brookman
Edition 2022
88' - 2021 - Documentary - Dialogue: English
Do a horse's four legs come off the ground together during a gallop? How the demand for such a fait divers paved the way for the rise of cinema in the 19th century is shown in Exposing Muybridge.
Exposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses. He also produced a sprawling and spectacular landscape catalog, ranging from Alaska to Central America, Utah to California. Artful, resilient, selfish, naive, eccentric, deceitful--Muybridge is a complicated, imperfect man and his story drips with ambition and success, loss and betrayal, near death experiences and even murder. "The machine cannot lie," Stanford declared of Muybridge's pioneering motion images. But what about the photographer? More than a century after his death, Muybridge's photographs have never ceased to seduce cutting-edge artists, scientists, innovators, and general viewers alike.
Exposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. He set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see.” - Film Carnage

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Credits

Directors

Marc Shaffer

Composers

Chad Cannon

Cast

Gary Oldman, Marta Braun, Philip Brookman

Scenario

Marc Shaffer

Director of Photography

James Ball, John Behrens, Andreas Burgess, Jay Dacey, Wesley Johnson, Chris Patterson, Benjamin Pritchard

Editors

Elisabeth Haviland James

Producers

Marc Shaffer, Elisabeth Haviland James, Serginho Roosblad

Production studios

Inside Out Media

More info

Dialogue

English

Countries of production

United States of America

Year

2021

Filmography

Marc Shaffer
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (2013), Exposing Muybridge (2021)