Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974): reparto, argumento y streaming

Released in 1974, Pasadena Freeway Stills is a notable film directed by Gary Beydler, running about 6 minutes.

What it’s about. Possibly the most lucid, vivid, and awesome demonstration of the building up of still images to create moving ones, Pasadena Freeway Stills simply, gracefully and powerfully shows us the process by which we are fooled by the movies. By doing so, Gary Beydler mines a very rich vein of associations and metaphor, without the slightest ostentation. Constructed as a thrilling arc of realization and, in a quite moving way, disappointment, the film is a beautiful articulation of our emotional entanglement with moving images, while simultaneously creating a form in which the illusion of cinema is brought into incredible relief as the film we're watching gradually catches up to the film Gary is holding up to the camera with his hands, one frame at a time. (Mark Toscano) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.0/10, Pasadena Freeway Stills has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

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