In 2012, Venus’s last transit of the sun was recorded on celluloid (the next will occur in 2117). Black Drop tracks the development of a device designed to counter human error in timing the crucial moments of Venus’s contact, which inspired Janssen’s photographic revolver, Marey’s chronophotographic gun and the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph.
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Film details
- Productielanden
- Denmark, Germany, UK
- Jaar
- 2012
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2013
- Lengte
- 28'
- Medium/Formaat
- HDcam
