Space, time, frozen movement

Rolling Shutter

A technical limitation of the recording technology. It is mistakenly regarded as an error that should be avoided. Rolling shutter is usually described as an effect that should be avoided. But this effect can also used creatively. By exaggerating it with algorithms.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue “Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of France, Course at Dieppe 1912”

Slit-Scan

Graphical effects that can be achieved with specialized optical devices. Nowadays implemented in software.

It is a mapping from movie to a single still image. Mostly called: ‘slit-scan photography’

Time Distortion

Mapping from movie to a movie with partial time delay or slit-scan. Sometimes called: ‘Animated slit-scan movies’.

Douglas Trumbull did this for the star gate sequence in “2001: A Space Odyssey”