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The image in motion was the great fascination of the era that invented the railroad transportation. Trains and movies concurred to hasten the landscape. From the wagons' windows one observes, as on the movie screens, the world passing by at 24 pictures per second.
Marcos Ribeiro recaptures the principle of this process, while photographers as Muybridge attempted to acquire, in series of images, the mechanics of the body in motion. However, here the process is inverted. Some of these classic sequences are shown in a fraction of the railway, to be seen from the train. Hundreds of pictures, hanging from cables, at the level of the wagons' windows. When the train passes, images are chained in motion. Instead of the movie device, in which the stationary spectator observes the uncoiling of animated images, here we have a spectator that is displaced, while observing fixed images. The disclosure of the movies' mechanics, starting from what has inspired it: the train.
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