Mat Collishaw's 3D-printed zoetrope reenacts biblical massacre

British artist Mat Collishaw (b. 1966, Nottingham) created All Things Fall (2014), a 3D-printed zoetrope inspired by Ippolito Scarsella's painting The Massacre of the Innocents. The device, first shown at Galleria Borghese in Rome during Collishaw's solo exhibition, contains about 350 miniature sculptures modeled by the artist and fabricated with 3D printing assistance from Sebastian Burdon. When rotated, the zoetrope—an optical pre-cinema invention from the 1830s—produces an illusion of continuous motion, depicting the biblical massacre in an endless loop. The work freezes the scene at the peak of its violence, repeating the horror perpetually.