The Digital Gesture: Rediscovering Cinematic Movement through Gifs – Hampus Hagman

An animated gif uses the Graphics Interchange Format to create movement from still images. The outcome is a short clip with jerky motion that has been described, quite aptly, as a “digital flip book”.[1] The device has been around since the 1980s, but due to its bite-size format, the ease of circulating it, and the … Continue reading The Digital Gesture: Rediscovering Cinematic Movement through Gifs – Hampus Hagman