FILM EVENING WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRINA PODGORNY
WHEN
WHERE
Filmhaus Saarbrücken
Mainzerstraße 8, 66111 Saarbrücken
LANGUAGE
INTRODUCTION: ENGLISH
PROGRAMME
Documentary collage of railway images from the first decades of cinema.
Trains is a wordless documentary composed entirely of archival footage from around the world. What connects these images are railway lines: infrastructures that, since the nineteenth century, have shaped movement, time, and historical experience.
Directed by Maciej J. Drygas, the film treats the train not simply as a subject, but as a structuring principle. Like cinema itself, railways organise motion along fixed lines, creating rhythm, acceleration, and interruption. Fragments of the twentieth century are edited along the tracks to form a powerful visual essay on mobility, coordination, and rupture.
Presented in the context of the CURE research programme, Trains invites viewers to reflect on infrastructure as an active historical force—one that produces continuity while revealing its fragility. The film avoids narration and commentary, relying instead on montage, movement, and attention.
An evocative archival film about cinema, technology, and history—and about what can be connected without ever being fully resolved.
The event takes place in cooperation with the Filmhaus Saarbrücken. Prof. Dr. Dr. Irina Podgorny, a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and currently a fellow at CURE, will open the film evening with an introduction.
More information can be found here.
