Speaking of movement and time not being able to exist without it, here are some short films that have been inspiring me lately:

Marcel Duchamp and John Cage

Duchamp is one of the big reasons I got interested in time in the first place. I took a class last year on the history of animation and we watched a few clips featuring his rotoscopes. A big chunk of my final paper for the class was about how Duchamp sought to create movement and a sense of time through his films and paintings, especially in his most famous painting, Nude Descending a Staircase. This was very early Cubist experimentation which paints a woman from different points of view and different points in time/space as she descends a staircase.



Here's another (sort of crappy quality) video montage of the work of Eadward Muybridge, who was the inventor of the zoopraxiscope, a precursor to modern day cinema. He was a photographer who compiled his image to make the first frame by frame films.


Finally, here's part 2 of a gorgeous film made by Norman McLaren. This is exactly what I'm trying to achieve with layers of image and information, and being able to "concretize" each second of time in a simple movement. This is my favorite video so far. Enjoy