5/20/12

original cinema

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Light, shadow, and moving image - a solar eclipse is the essence of cinema.

Here in the Bay Area it was an annular eclipse, leaving just a crescent-shaped sliver of sun visible, so that shape became the theme of this primitive cinema. Look at the countless crescents formed by the shadow of a tree. This is the original non-narrative moving image.

3 comments:

Diandra said...

aw cool

shahn said...

Did you see it?

I like how the shadows look like a crazy, ominous smoke formation.
There are a few photos other people have published on the internet, I definitely recommend searching them out.

Diandra said...

I didn't get to see it ! But I will keep an eye out for pictures.