The Man with the Personal Computer

The Man with the Personal Computer

film/video
2020
66'
de
Ausstellungsansicht The Man with the Personal Computer von Robert Luxemburg. Foto Luca Girardini, CC NC-SA 4.0
Ausstellungsansicht The Man with the Personal Computer von Robert Luxemburg. Foto Luca Girardini, CC NC-SA 4.0

The Man with the Personal Computer is an animated digital mosaic of Dziga Vertov's 1929 classic The Man with the Movie Camera. In a 256-channel matrix, 25 million miniaturized stills from Vertov's film are arranged, frame by frame, to match the original image as closely as possible. Where The Man with the Movie Camera expresses the frantic joy of mobile moviemaking, The Man with the Personal Computer dissolves the stream of images into a new visual dimension that, no less frenetically, celebrates cinema as an object of computation. Unlike most other films, this one is best seen from afar, or through squinted eyes. Both the video and the source code written to render it are in the public domain at https://rolux.org/tm20

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