CinematoGIFs Show Classic Film Moments in a New Way [PICS]

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Animated GIFs have gone far beyond dancing babies and cats playing the piano. Occupying a twilight zone between still photography and full-motion video, the animated images are getting close enough to artwork to deserve their puffed-up new name, cinematoGIFs.

They're fascinating, because unlike still photography that grabs an instant in time and moving pictures that depict longer durations, these images represent a few seconds that are stuck in time, playing over and over in a circular loop, suggesting infinity.

Photographer Gustaf Mantel combines the world of cinema and stills with his new collection of cinematoGIFs, celebrating the work of Stanley Kubrick and other classic filmmakers. It's a subtle effect, but the images' compelling and ghostly beauty makes it hard to look away:

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Graphics courtesy If We Don't, Remember Me/Gustaf Mantel