Train Again

[Available March 2 via streaming on MUBI.] Amazing cinematography dominates Peter Tscherkassky's visually stunning, dialogue-free, black-and-white. avant-garde, fascinating, kaleidoscopic, frenetic-paced, 20-minute, 2021 documentary that pays homage one screen shot at a time to the history of trains with a montage of moving, still and manipulated vintage train images, interspersed with related images of crowds, collisions, and bridge collapses illustrating how the iron horse replaced the valiant steed.
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