Spacy (1981)

Directed by

Takashi Ito

Country

Japan

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This experimental short film uses hundreds of still photos of a gymnasium. A stop motion trick makes the camera seem to zoom and travel through the space and into photos placed inside the room, creating a repeating visual puzzle.

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What happens

Spacy (スペイシー) is a 1981 Japanese experimental short film directed by Takashi Ito. The film consists of 700 continuous 16 mm still photographs of a gymnasium; using a stop motion technique, the camera appears to move throughout the space and into photographs of the gymnasium itself that are displayed across multiple easels, creating a seemingly endless, recursive visual effect. In 1995, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, purchased Spacy for its film collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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