13.06.2007 by Zoltan

Cinema Redux, in motion

Now I thought that was really fucking cool (and it is!) until I got sent this link (courtesy of Oli Shaw) to the work of Daniel Shiffman. He’s essentially taken the Cinema Redux concept into the 4th dimension.

Yes, you heard right. He’s attempting to show every frame of the movie simultaneously in motion… I’m not certain I’ve explained that very well, but you have to check the video to get an idea. Its simply insane!

But what I think is really interesting is how natural this bombardment actually feels. In our ADD / super-saturated / MTV world, it seems we have become accustomed to this ability to take in so much information.

For the techies amongst us, he’s got 6 screens showing 3,264 frames at any one time ( = only about 2 minutes of the film), and as he says “So I just need, say, 200 or so more screens to show all 130,000 frames of the movie”. He’s running 3 Mac Pros with 8gb of RAM each and STILL its crashing after 5 minutes!

Anyway, back to my strata/layer research…