Animated GIFs have gone far beyond dancing babies and cats playing the piano. Occupying a twilight zone between still photography and full-motion video, the animated images are getting close enough to artwork to deserve their puffed-up new name, cinematoGIFs.
They’re fascinating, because unlike still photography that grabs an instant in time and moving pictures that depict longer durations, these images represent a few seconds that are stuck in time, playing over and over in a circular loop, suggesting infinity.
Photographer Gustaf Mantel combines the world of cinema and stills with his new collection of cinematoGIFs, celebrating the work of Stanley Kubrick and other classic filmmakers. It’s a subtle effect, but the images’ compelling and ghostly beauty makes it hard to look away:
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
Blade Runner
Taxi Driver
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
American Psycho
True Grit
Graphics courtesy If We Don’t, Remember Me/Gustaf Mantel
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Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:15:43 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/beNjvHeYTnc/
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They’re fascinating, because unlike still photography that grabs an instant in time and moving pictures that depict longer durations, these images represent a few seconds that are stuck in time, playing over and over in a circular loop, suggesting infinity.
Photographer Gustaf Mantel combines the world of cinema and stills with his new collection of cinematoGIFs, celebrating the work of Stanley Kubrick and other classic filmmakers. It’s a subtle effect, but the images’ compelling and ghostly beauty makes it hard to look away:
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
Blade Runner
Taxi Driver
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
American Psycho
True Grit
Graphics courtesy If We Don’t, Remember Me/Gustaf Mantel
More About: art, cinematoGIFs, GIF, Gustaf MantelFor more Media coverage:Follow Mashable Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Media channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:15:43 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/beNjvHeYTnc/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/09/04/cinematogifs-classic-film/#comments
