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.
Strange images generated from a strange film
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[…] 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 […]
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