Exposing Muybridge
Watch TrailerThe story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Artful, resilient, selfish, naive, eccentric, deceitful--Muybridge is a complicated, imperfect man and his story drips with ambition and success, loss and betrayal, near death experiences and even murder. "The machine cannot lie," Stanford declared of Muybridge's pioneering motion images. But what about the photographer?
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| Year | 2021 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Marc Shaffer |
| Runtime | 88 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 7.0/10 (4 votes) |
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The film constructs its narrative not as a linear biography, but as a palimpsest of contradictions, relying on archival footage, reenactments, and evocative location shots to build a complex psychological profile. It explores the chasm between the objective truth of Muybridge's motion studies and the subjective, often deceitful truth of the man behind the lens.
What lingers after the final frame is a meditation on obsession and legacy, on how a tool designed to capture reality can also be wielded to obscure it. The film leaves us to ponder the shadow cast by a brilliant, flawed pioneer. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Marc Shaffer
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In a quiet setting, with focus on the interplay of image, history, and psychology.
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