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45 films in a minute: the animated video that celebrates the history of cinema

Precisely during Christmas, on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screened a film for the first time, La salida de la fábrica Lumière in Lyon, before a group of people gathered in the Indian Room of the Gran Café in Paris. That documentary film, which lasted just 46 seconds and had no sound, is considered the first production in the history of cinema. Since then, the seventh art has evolved in the way it is created –from that first cinematograph, an invention of the French brothers, to digital cinema–, in its language, or with the creation of different cinematographic genres.

Of course, 125 years are also necessary to make many films. A young Iranian, Shahin Sepehri, wanted to give up tribute to the history of cinema with a short video that lasts just one minute and that collects scenes from some of the most famous feature films of the 20th and 21st century to the beat of a waltz melody, with films such as Nosferatu, The Graduate, The Fight Club and Taxi Driver, among other. Although he published it in September, the video has been shared many times on social networks in recent weeks, it may even have reached you on WhatsApp, as happened to the Twitter user @h_miguez, who later He shared it in a tweet on December 18.

Sepehri, 26, is surprised that his video has transcended his Instagram profile. “I published it without any intention, simply to honor this art,” he tells Verne by email. The young Iranian studies film at the University of Tehran and had already made other similar videos about the cinema of your country and about your favorite iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami.

Sepehri’s video shows different movie scenes in which the real setting is maintained, but where the protagonists are animated characters with a style reminiscent of the rotoscopia, an old animation technique invented more than a century ago by another pair of brothers (the Fleischers) that, using a machine called a “rotoscope”, allows the replacement of the frames of a real film with drawings traced on each frame. Currently, there are digital programs with which this effect can be achieved. These are what Sepehri uses for his videos.

The characters that appear in this short tribute to cinema also have no faces, which makes it more difficult to identify each film. “I like that minimalist touch of using little line and I also wanted to propose that game of guessing movies, that’s why I don’t put the title of each one either,” he says. Some Twitter users have already provided the list of movies ordered in order of appearance and Sepehri has confirmed to us that it is correct.

The young Iranian says that he has seen the 45 films that appear in the video. “Some I chose because they are my favorites, like Wishing to love with which I cry a lot, and others because they are very popular and probably everyone knows them ”.

He also jokes about one of the comments he received for his video. “A man precisely told me that he had bad taste choosing films, when in reality my selection tries to represent all tastes, that is the beauty of cinema, that it is made for everyone,” he says.

Following the publication of her video on Instagram, Sepehri has received some job offers. “Nothing to do with cinema, it is a music video for a famous singer from my country, Faramarz Aslani“, bill. But due to his passion for the seventh art, he ensures that he will continue to create more animations like this in the future.

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