Believe it or not, this is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, distilled into a single image.
Created in 2004, this piece is part of a larger collection called, “Cinema Redux.” Artist/innovator Brendan Dawes used a Java program to sample a movie every second, generating 8×6 pixel images, each row representing one minute of film.
As Brendan explains the process, “The end result is a kind of unique fingerprint for that film. A sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process. Compare Serpico to The Conversation. You can see there’s far more edits in Lumet’s classic compared to the more gentle slower pace of Coppola’s Conversation. This is also down to the editing style of Walter Murch who prefers to only make cuts when absolutely necessary. Have a look through the eight movies and make your own mind up.”
To explore his world, go here.
Latest Comment: Wow, this is so cool, Chris! I have never seen anything like this before. A fingerprint of a film. It's ... from Justin
