Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
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Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

DirectorKen Jacobs

2007
38 min

Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is probably the first film in history: Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince’s 1888 footage of traffic crossing Leeds Bridge.

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