I watched this short experimental film by Michael Langan. I found it interesting but after a few minutes, it got tedious because the continual echoing of the dancer's movements were too slow, if it had been a bit faster then it would have kept the momentum of the whole film going at an interesting pace. I can definitely see inspiration from photographer 'Edward Muybridge' and Norman McLaren as the film critic said ''Taking inspiration from Edward Muybridge and especially Norman McLaren’s Pas de Deux,''.
Jason Sondhi the writer of this article presents the as ''modern compositing techniques to create wonderful ghost-like images of movement, Telling a loose narrative of rebirth through 3 movements.......the film honors traditional forms of classical music and dance.'' The shots are simple, shot at eye angle so it might have been interesting to combine different camera shots with this technique to see how visually interesting it made it. A reason it may have been shot at an eye angle is that the viewer could concentrate on the visual echoing movements of the dancer. I would enjoyed watching the film and it has helped in present the technique of echoing in filmmaking which can be considered when wanting to create cool effects.
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