Walking Forward-Running Past
Walking Forward-Running Past
1971, English. Directed by John Baldessari.
In Walking Forward-Running Past, Baldessari ingeniously employs photography and video to examine and ultimately deconstruct film. In this conceptual exercise, he tapes up photographic film stills of himself walking toward the camera—coming closer with each successive image—and then photos of himself running past it. The sequentiality of this action results in a crude montage, an ultimately futile attempt to recreate the phenomenological experience of cinematic movement. Gasping with exertion, Baldessari quickly and repeatedly replaces photo after photo. In his efforts to evoke the cinematic experience, a layered metonymic relationship develops between the static, photographic image of Baldessari running and his "real" movements on video.
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Walking Forward-Running Past isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1971. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Walking Forward-Running Past?
Walking Forward-Running Past (1971) was directed by John Baldessari.