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Photographs of Films

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Re: Photographs of Films

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It's neat that the artist is actually taking a photograph of a projected video, but if you accept digital processing and are only after the visual effect of this, averaging video frames is a lot easier (though less precious).

The artist Jason Salavon has done very similar things (20 years ago):

http://salavon.com/work/SpecialMoments/

http://salavon.com/work/LateNightTriad/

http://salavon.com/work/Homes/

http://salavon.com/work/EveryPlayboyCenterfoldDecades/

Re: Photographs of Films

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It's neat that the artist is actually taking a photograph of a projected video, but if you accept digital processing and are only after the visual effect of this, averaging video frames is a lot easier (though less precious). The artist Jason Salavon has done very similar things (20 years ago): http://salavon.com/work/SpecialMoments/ http://salavon.com/work/LateNightTriad/ http://salavon.com/work/Homes/ http://salavo…

Not an artist myself, but it reminds me that maybe ten years ago or so I produced a series of "movie abstracts" which were whole movies accelerated to last 10-15 seconds by temporally averaging frames (the tmix ffmpeg filter).

I don't think I have them anymore, it was just for showing to friends. But the result was interesting, especially for some Wong Kar-Wai movies or, as I remember, Hero, where colours play an important role.