Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance

Foreword    

 

 

 

It's hard to deny that cinema is the most significant artistic innovation of the last century. While we've been telling each other stories since our ancestors lived in the caves, the ability to photograph a living event as a succession of still images and then recreate that event by successively projecting those same images has changed the way stories are told, and altered the very nature of human communication. A rich cinematic language has evolved, spoken eloquently by dramatists, documentarians, poets and propagandists alike. It's not a language of words but of images; images which can be juxtaposed in myriad combinations ...