Comic-Lesung mit Guy Delisle: „Für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde“

In the organizer's words:

Experience an exciting journey into the history of photography and film - straight from the pen of award-winning comic creator Guy Delisle!
As part of this reading, Guy Delisle will present his new work "For a Fraction of a Second", which will be published by Reprodukt in April 2025.
The reading will be held in English and will be moderated and translated by Matthias Wieland.

In 1855, the young Englishman Eadweard Muybridge emigrates to California. He was enthusiastic about a technical process that was still in its infancy at the time: photography. With the financial support of railroad entrepreneur Leland Stanford, one of the richest men in the United States, he achieved something previously unattainable: he captured the movement of a galloping horse on film and was thus able to prove that the hooves of a horse at full gallop did not touch the ground. Long before Thomas Alva Edison and the Lumière brothers, Eadweard Muybridge used film to stop time; he became one of the most famous photographers of his time. In "For a fraction of a second", Guy Delisle - himself a trained animator - portrays a pioneer of cinema who has been unjustly forgotten by history.
Delisle, himself a trained animator, pays tribute to Muybridge as a pioneer of cinema who has unjustly disappeared from history.
In "For a fraction of a second", Muybridge is portrayed not only as a technician, but also as a man with an unusual life and an extraordinary passion.

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