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Animation Night 2024
Filmstill Nineteenth-Century Stroboscopic Discs (1831–1882)
Nineteenth-Century Stroboscopic Discs (1831–1882)
Dominique Willoughby
Ghastly grimaces, acrobatics, fountains of colour – the precursors of cinema needed only a few animation images to amaze. A parade of reanimated historical wonder discs.
Filmstill Nineteenth-Century Stroboscopic Discs (1831–1882)

Nineteenth-Century Stroboscopic Discs (1831–1882)

Disques stroboscopiques du dix-neuvième siècle (1831–1882)
Dominique Willoughby
Animation Night 2024
Experimental Film
France
1999
14 minutes
without dialogue

Gruesome grimaces, craftsmen at work, running animals, wild fountains of colours – the “not yet films” from the prehistory of cinema were only sixteen animation images long, but they left people amazed and satisfied the sensation-seekers. Parisian artist Dominique Willoughby has retrieved some 19th century wonder discs from the archives and re-animated them in a variety of ways to minimalist music.

André Eckardt

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Director
Dominique Willoughby