Gallery: This Movie's Film Reel Is Actually a Conveyor Belt of 3-D Printed Figurines

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    *Relief* is an art installation by French artist Julien Maire. It's a reel of film that’s not actually film at all.
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    Julien Maire
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    Instead, it's a long looped series of tiny, translucent 3-D printed figurines.
  • Each of the 85 little men constitutes one frame.
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    Each of the 85 little men constitutes one frame.
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    As it clicks around and around, the light from the projector blasts through the figurines, creating a shadowy stop-motion film on the wall.
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    There's not much of a narrative arc to *Relief*, which shows a man digging dirt in and out of a hole in the ground.
  • But taken as a whole the film and the machine create a totally different sort of threedimensional cinematic experience.
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    But taken as a whole, the film and the machine create a totally different sort of three-dimensional cinematic experience.
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