

Naked bodies frozen in time—Muybridge's ghosts reimagined for the HD era.
A series of figure studies using high-speed HD video, and inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.
Cinematography
High-speed HD captures micro-movements invisible to naked eye.
Direction
Michalek's obsessive precision recreates 19th-century motion studies.
Director
David Michalek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Muybridge's 1878 'Horse in Motion' settled a bet about galloping horses—Michalek's project similarly interrogates what cameras reveal that eyes cannot.
The cast includes performance artists and dancers rather than actors, chosen for their physical control and willingness to be objectified as moving sculpture.