moving picture
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
How do you end an autobiographical movie? You’re living to make a film about yourself so how do you know the ending? Traffaut found a solution with moving pictures in the 400 blows. He reprinted the same frame on celluloid to be screened at 24fps. So although the image is halted, the film keeps running. It’s not a still photograph that documents a beginning, middle, or end. Nor is it an image of a noun. Rather than a moment in time, it’s an image of time, movement, a verb. Ongoing. See image in motion from 3:39 in the video below.
