I’m always intrigued by “meta media” experiments in which artists find unconventional ways to display traditional media. For example, Cinema Redux.

SERPICO, Sydney Lumet, 1973:

This project by Brendan Dawes distills an entire film down to a single image, using a Java program that captures a sample every second and generates an 8X6 pixel image of the frame. Each row represents one minute of the film.

VERTIGO, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958:

Dawes states:

The end result is a kind of unique fingerprint for that film. A sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process. Compare Serpico to The Conversation. You can see there’s far more edits in Lumet’s classic compared to the more gentle slower pace of Coppola’s Conversation. This is also down to the editing style of Walter Murch who prefers to only make cuts when absolutely necessary. Have a look through the eight movies and make your own mind up.

You can have a look here.