The Emperor of Time
Year listed: 2015
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7 min · English · Documentary
Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering moving pictures and troubled family life are revisited through his abandoned son's perspective and a nineteenth-century mutoscope.
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An early-cinema invention becomes a window into a complicated family history. Try Drew Christie's short for an unusual meeting of moving pictures, memory and mortality.
Murder, infidelity, parental abandonment and mortality.
Source: Drew Christie
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