Tropenkolder
Synopsis
If cinema symbolized progress in the 20* century, the railway delivered it. Tropenkolder explores the entanglement between phantom ride films - shot with cameras mounted on moving trains to document the landscape - and the 1923 railway workers strike in Java.
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