Moving Pictures

The horrors of war the art of producing pictures the autobiography of a master filmmaker and the parallels between the mass production of weapons and violent media imagesall come together in Moving Pictures a rich multilayered documentary Over the course of a 50year career Colin Low has directed or produced 200 films and has garnered a remarkable nine Oscar nominations During the same period he has collected images of waretchings and woodcuts including extremely detailed miniatures But the images that have so fascinated and haunted Low are nearly impossible to accurately capture on film So Low shot Moving Pictures in 35 mm and developed techniquesused here for the first timeto show the fine lines of stamps and the microscopic details of tiny copperplate etchings with startling clarity