Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer

Name: Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer
Released: 1897
Rating: 41.81

1897

Documentary

Short Film

A train, with a camera mounted near the front, pulls out of the Jerusalem station. It passes groups, first of Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews. Dress, hats, and facial hair are each distinctive group to group. Except for the station itself, the buildings visible in the background are ruins - no more than crumbling walls. (imdb)

Directed by:

Louis Lumière, Alexandre Promio

Genre:

Documentary

AKA:

Leaving Jerusalem by Railway

Country:

France

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None

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1897

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djross

Rated 27 Jul 2015

Rather than a record of motion by a static camera, here the camera, and therefore us, and therefore everything, is in motion, a cosmos in becoming, but viewed looking backwards. If this film may in this sense be the birth of Benjamin's angel of history, it is also reminiscent in advance of the remarkable opening tracking shot in Demy's BAY OF ANGELS, conveying without the benefit of Legrand's tragic score the feeling of entering into, and yet receding from, a world destined for annihilation.

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