Best Film of 1885

1. The Machine Man [L'homme machine]
Director: Étienne-Jules Marey
France (formerly French Republic) | Western Europe | Europe
1885 | 1880s | 19th Century

Étienne-Jules Marey's "The Machine Man" (1895) is a curious animation for its time. On the one hand its tricks are meant to serve a technical purpose, on the other its style resembles the not yet discovered stylism of post modern art: the human reduced to just a linear silhouette on a white canvas.

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