MOVIE, BIO SCOPE, FILM, CINEMATIC, PHOTO PLAY, TALKIE, CELLULOID, ZOOPRAXICOPE

The First Motion Picture Ever Made

In the year 1872, it was Eadweard Muybridge who was first to  experiment on how to capture  moving images. He set up twelve cameras  on a race track. They were connected by a thread across the track. Further they  had attached the thread  with a camera. As soon as  the horse started running, the thread was torn .  This lead the cameras to work  in a sequential manner. This  discovery of his own is called the Zoopraxiscope, what is known later labled as motion photography .  Technically, this was the first ever movie to be created.

My Take on Films: 

People may say that a film is all about life. Some times I wonder whether it is true other way round or not. Life is nothing but “Mise-en-scène” of your cinema. Is there a cinema simply on facts,  truths and without the bias of the filmmaker. Is there is a possibility to represent cinema straight from the camera, independent of the bias, that camera angle itself provides. How do you concieve those cinemas, when today's documentary itself is not entirely free from the bias. Are we moving far away from cinema, with long dialogues, quick cuts lacking the space of visual story telling or we are actually enriching cinema with different dimensionalities of understanding and technology. It is to find out whether we always have a story and the cinema is representing the story or the story is simply coming out of the collage of the shot. A cinema has many dimensions. In addition of being tremendous source of entertainment and influencer, it can be purely academic, visual poetry, shaping, realization and search at the sme time. A simple mere play of light can tell you so much about the questions we always eternally have. I wonder and wonder further, what is pure cinema? where the cinema coming from?

My Writings on Cinema:

1.  My Review to the movie ''JHILLI'  (2021) can be found here in the magazine OTT Brains (September Issue) . The film is directed by Ishaan Ghose and produced by Goutam Ghose and Ishaan Ghose.