Cy Kuckenbaker is an American filmmaker, video artist and professor known for Tiger Oak + Echo (2018), Bush League (2010), The Potato Eater (2003) and his viral "time collapse" edits of planes and traffic in San Diego.
[3] Kuckenbaker made the film Tiger Oak + Echo[4] after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kupiškis, Lithuania from 2000-2002.
[3][4] In 2013, Kuckenbaker partnered with the Museum of Photographic Arts through the Creative Catalyst Grant from the San Diego Foundation to produce a series of videos[6] stemming off his viral content and creative edits of traffic, planes and everyday life in San Diego.
[9][10] Kuckenbaker said it took approximately 2 hours of editing for every 1 second of finished video rendering[11] and that he had to composite additional time lapse footage over the render to give the illusion that time was passing.
[12] He recorded 462 cars over 4 minutes from the Washington Street bridge overlooking SR-163 on October 1, 2013.