Movies: Slow motion

  • 2012
    Figure Studies

    Figure Studies (2012)

    Figure Studies

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    A series of figure studies using high-speed HD video, and inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey....

    Figure Studies
  • 1966
    Disappearing Music for Face

    Disappearing Music for Face (1966)

    Disappearing Music for Face

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    A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression....

    Disappearing Music for Face
  • 1940
    Quicker'n a Wink

    Quicker'n a Wink (1940)

    Quicker'n a Wink

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    In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Exampl...

    Quicker'n a Wink
  • 2017
    Midwinter Hue

    Midwinter Hue (2017)

    Midwinter Hue

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    A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic, meditative short film about letting go of the past and embracing the unknown future....

    Midwinter Hue
  • 2005
    Ephemera

    Ephemera (2005)

    Ephemera

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    Deep psychological states find relief through excess water released from eyes....

    Ephemera
  • 2009
    Threshold to the Kingdom

    Threshold to the Kingdom (2009)

    Threshold to the Kingdom

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    Threshold to the Kingdom sees artist Mark Wallinger play with the symbolism signalling a change in being. Slow motion footage of people arriving at London City Airport shows them delivered from the stateless limbo of international airspace to the sov...

    Threshold to the Kingdom
  • 1969
    Birds

    Birds (1969)

    Birds

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    «These are not dogs» could be a title loosely adapted from Magritte. Man’s best friend is liberated from the force of gravity, gliding through space and time in extreme slow motion and experiencing its rebirth as an abstract being. The laser beams an...

    Birds
  • 1966
    5 O'Clock in the Morning

    5 O'Clock in the Morning (1966)

    5 O'Clock in the Morning

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    A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera....

    5 O'Clock in the Morning
  • 2008
    The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley

    The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley (2008)

    The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley

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    A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmakers, Naomi Uman and Lee Lynch)....

    The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley