Muybridge's Strings

Yamamura, Koji, (film director.). Verrall, David, (film producer.). Saito, Kenji, (film producer.). Shiota, Shuzo John, (film producer.). Fukushima, Michael, (film producer.). Tsuchihashi, Keisuke, (film producer.). Shiota, Shuzo John, (film producer.). Polygon Pictures Inc., (film producer.). Polygon Pictures Inc., (film producer.). NHK (Tokyo), (film producer.). NHK (Tokyo), (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura's Muybridge's Strings is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge-who in 1878 successfully photographed consecutive phases in the movement of a galloping horse-and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the highpoints in Muybridge's troubled life and intercuts them with the mother's surrealistic daydreams-a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life's fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness. Enriched by Koji Yamamura's refined artistry and Normand Roger's soundtrack, Muybridge's Strings observes the ties that cease to bind, fixes its gaze on the course of life, and presents a moment in time suspended on the crystalline notes of a canon by J.S. Bach.

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video (12 min., 39 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2011.
Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

General Note:	Agency - English program:.Animation Studio. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with NHK and Polygon Pictures Inc.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Available to subscribers only.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Koji Yamamura ; script, Koji Yamamura ; edit, Koji Yamamura ; design, Koji Yamamura ; animation, Koji Yamamura ; original music, Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand ; sound design, Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; re-recording, Shelley Craig ; recording, Luc Léger, Geoffrey Mitchell ; executive producer, David Verrall, Kenji Saito, Shuzo John Shiota ; producer, Michael Fukushima, Keisuke Tsuchihashi, Shuzo John Shiota.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 2011.
Target Audience Note:	15-17.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language Note:	Bilingual.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-03-01).