Visualizing Vertov: Visualization Analysis of Russian Avant-garde Cinema

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  All shots with close-ups of faces from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928). The shots are arranged in the order of their appearance in the film, left to right, top to bottom. Each shot is represented by its second frame. The complete film is 52 min, 654 shots.

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  Detail of a montage of all shots with close-ups of faces from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).

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  Detail of a montage of shots from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).

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  Detail of a visualization of shot lengths in “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).

Author

Lev Manovich

Visualizations and Publication

• Download the article (PDF 10 MB).
• The first part of this article appeared in Russian Journal of Communication, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013; the second part was included in Jeff Geiger and Karin Littau, eds., Cinematicity in Media History (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
• View high resolution versions of all visualizations discussed in the article on Flickr.
• You can also download a single archive file (ZIP, 58 MB) containing the article PDF and full resolution versions of all visualizations.

Kingdom Hearts Game Play Visualizations

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  Figure 1. Kingdom Hearts videogame traversal. 29 sessions over 20 days, 62.5 hours total. This visualization uses 22,500 frames. Detail (see full size image on Flickr).

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  Figure 2. Kingdom Hearts II videogame traversal. 16 sessions over 18 days, 27 hours total. This visualization uses 13,300 frames. Detail (see full size image on Flickr).

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  Close-up detail of Figure 2 (see full size image on Flickr).

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  Figure 3. Sampled frames from the video capture of the complete traversal (playing the game from the beginning to the end) of the videogame Kingdom Hearts (2002, Square Co., Ltd.). Detail (see full size image on Flickr). See the entire video animation on YouTube.

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  Detail of Figure 3 (see full size image on Flickr). See the entire video animation on YouTube.

Author

William Huber

Project Video

See the entire video animation on YouTube.

Description

This project (2010) represents nearly 100 hours of playing two videogames as high resolution visualizations. This representation allows us to study the interplay of various elements of gameplay, and the relationship between the travel through game spaces and the passage of time in game play.