What would happen if you take every single frame of a film and instead of displaying the frame in it’s normal aspect ratio you make it only 1 pixel wide?
So with that question I built a piece of software in Processing that could take in a live stream from a DVD and construct images based on this idea. The film I used was the classic, and very strange ‘Don’t Look Now’ starring Donald Sutherland.
[…] There’s a long tradition of works in Processing, OpenFrameworks, and even Flash that unwraps film into two-dimensional art in different ways. Brendan Dawes has his work Cinema Redux, which he also mentions in his wonderful book Analog In, Digital Out. See also his Don’t Look Now project. We’ve also looked at Dan Shiffman’s project which unfurled Run, Lola Run on a giant wall of screens. I’m sure there are other examples, though, and that’s just off the top of my head. The reader collective knowledge is greater than any one person, so — other examples? And, um, are there any good summer movies coming out this summer, anyway? (Hey, I’m looking forward to Harry Potter this week, though I don’t know when the rest of the world gets it.) […]
Create Digital Motion » Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF / 14/07/2009
[…] A sort of follow on from the Don’t Look Now thing, Cinema Redux explores the idea of distilling a whole movie down into one single image. I built a little app in processing that takes a sample every second from a film and builds up an image for the entire film. The guys over at Processing very kindly featured it in the exhibition area of the site, where you can find the source code too. Framed prints of the project are available to buy online. josh berezin 31/01/2004 at 2:29 am […]
brendandawes.com » Film DNA? / 11/04/2007