Moving the Still: A Short History of the GIF

This is a short made for Moving the Still (presented by Smartwater). Moving the Still is the first large-scale, open call festival for original GIF art. This inaugural competition showcases animated GIFS as a new genre of digital art. The Festival is curated by Paddle8, a premier online destination for art collectors, and hosted here on Tumblr, the world’s leading social blogging platform.