Paris at 60mph, 1925. No plot, pure velocity. Your great-grandpa's acid trip.
A high-speed view of Paris via train-track; Zooming down the Seine by boat. Chomette's first film, Games of Reflections and Speed, traverses tunnels and elevated railways to produce a disarming rhythm.
Cinematography
Mirror shots that predict Vertigo by 33 years
Editing
Rhythmic cutting that basically invents music videos
Direction
Chomette shooting from moving trains like a madman
Director
Henri Chomette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chomette was René Clair's brother and beat him to pure cinema by years; the French avant-garde basically started here.
This was shot on actual working trains without permits—Chomette just held on and prayed.
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