raumzeithund (SpaceTimeDog)
Nikolaus Eckhard | AT 2010 | 6 min. 
Material: 35mm
Format: 35mm
Original language: silent
Camera: Mark Gerstorfer, Anna Manhardt
Editing: Nikolaus Eckhard
Production: Sixpack
Print/Sales: Sixpack
German Premiere
As legend goes, Eadweard Muybridge discovered chronophotography 1870 as the result of a wager. In RaumZeitHund Nikolaus Eckhard refers directly to Muybridge's famous photo series 'Animal Locomotions.' A dog, specially trained for this purpose, is filmed on a treadmill in extreme slow motion (150 individual images per second). The dog's movements, which are initially smooth, become increasingly distorted; the animal jerks and flounders ever more acutely. In the end, likewise the film's climax, the animal floats, in motion, with all four paws in the air. The evidence is there, the wonder is possible. – Filmvideo.at
Nikolaus Eckhard, born in 1987 in Horn, Lower Austria. He lives, works and studies in Vienna. He studies Film at the Academy of Fine Arts and sociology at the University of Vienna. He has worked as usher, set decorator, sound recordist, set driver etc. Nikolaus Eckhard is a member of Ölfilmproductions
Films: Elefantenhaut 2009 | Raumzeithund 2010