The Fixation Database is a visual study of color and light rhythm in films, music videos, and other time-based media. Each image in the database presents every frame from its source video placed sequentially in a grid, creating a visual, colored timeline, called a fixation.
This Film and Animation Database focuses on the history of cinema, popular movies, animation, and experimental art film. Beginning with the earliest films by the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès, the database reveals the technological development of color, first by tinting, toning, and hand painting, and then the Technicolor revolution heralded by the Wizard of Oz. It also includes the early animation work by Émile Cohl and Lotte Reiniger, leading both to the Disney animation studio and Warner Bros., but also paving the way for the experimental film art of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Stan Brakhage, and Len Lye. The database reveals color trends in science fiction and fantasy films, and the use of rhythmic flashes to increase tension and signify danger.
Jeffrey Moser
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