FESTIVAL GALLERY »VIEWS TOWARDS MUYBRIDGE« 12-15 March, Galerie Adlergasse at the Kultur Forum, Wachsbleichstraße 4a (Frontyard), 01067 Dresden

The exhibition accompanying the 2026 festival is dedicated to a pioneer who, in the 19th century, took a groundbreaking approach to the interplay of movement and stillness through photography: Eadweard Muybridge. By stringing these photographs together, his work laid the foundation for the emergence of the medium of film. The exhibition, designed by the Dresden-based group “The Ferry Crew,” presents films with a direct connection to Muybridge, such as Tomas Rampula's “Time Metallurgist” (CZ, 2023) and Thom Andersen's “Eadweard Muybridge — Zoopraxographer” (USA, 1974, stills).

Tomas Rampula "Time Metallurgist“ , CZ 2023:

Experimental film Time-Metallurgist uses historical materials (photographs, newspaper excerpts, letters, and episodes from Eadweard Muybridge’s life) with artificial intelligence to reconstruct events in late-19th-century California and their impact today. Invited west by Leland Stanford—the railroad magnate whose enterprise abetted the massacre of Indigenous peoples and bison, and who later founded Stanford University, a 20th-century driver of cybernetics and AI—Muybridge becomes our guide. After a severe 1860 stagecoach head injury, he emerges altered, sensing tensions within the earth. The film braids past and present across space and time, portraying Earth as a living being with its own temporality. It links bison extermination, a tilt of Earth’s axis, the discovery of oil, and the climate crisis—relations visible only through deep (geological) time.
 

Opens daily one hour before the program begins.