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Gallery of Student/Faculty Work
Copenhagen Cycles, Eric Dyer
A bicyclist travels through a fantastical, collaged reconstruction of Denmark's capital city.
Eric Dyer, who teaches animation in
the visual arts department, combines
the pre-cinema zoetrope with high-definition digital video technology to explore the kinetics of
Copenhagen. Dyer spent eight months in Copenhagen on a Fulbright Fellowship. He rode around
on a bicycle, collected source footage of the city's moving elements, printed and cut the sequences,
then built about 30 zoetrope-like paper sculptures. Copenhagen Cycles is composed entirely of
unprocessed shots of the spinning sculptures. Dyer invented this filmmaking process while attempting
to animate zoetropes with strobe lights. He found that using a high shutter speed on certain video
camera allows for a flicker-free registration of the zoetrope elements.
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