Critics reviews

The result is a mesmerising film essay that eludes easy description but remains required viewing over four decades after its inspired creation as a master’s thesis project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Its low-key popularity is understandable and irresistible--it's an instructional piece, a film theory icebreaker, a true crime yarn, and a brilliant structural film... Among its other virtues, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER quietly recognizes the cinema's extraordinary utility in studying the dense surfaces of nineteenth-century photographs.