^↑ On the dot, down the line

Week 1 - From Local to Standard

The Adoption of Standard Time
Ian R. Bartky
Technology and Culture
Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. 1989)
p. 25-56
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat
(The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station)
Lumiere Brothers
1895-7
1:17
(4k, 60fps restoration by Denis Shiryaev)
Lumière’s “Arrival of the Train”: Cinema’s Founding Myth
Martin Loiperdinger
The Moving Image Journal
Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2004)
p. 89-118
A Trip Down Market Street (San Francisco, USA)
April 14, 1906
11:51
The Flying Train (Wuppertal, Germany)
MoMA Film Vault
1902
68mm
2:04

Wuppertal, Germany Schwebebahn
Luke Starkenburg
2018
12:37

The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
(upscaled to 4k, stabilized, colorized)
Denis Shiryaev
2020
3:47

Week 2 - To scale

Routine Pleasures
Jean-Pierre Gorin
1986
1:20:00
Termite Tracks: “Routine Pleasures”
and the Paradoxes of Collectivity
Michael Ned Holte
Afterall Journal
Vol. 22, Autumn/Winter 2009
Reproduced by East of Borneo, 2012
Miniatur Wunderland
Arosa Line First Drive | Train Simulator 2017 part 1
Colonel Failure
28:55
August 22, 2017

Week 3 - Re-drawing with-drawing

SBB Design Index
Josef Müller-Brockmann
Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways (excerpts)
Zürcher Hochschule für Künste and Lars Müller Publishers
2019
Why the French Revolution’s “Rational” Calendar Wasn’t
Ed Simon
JSTOR Daily
May 23, 2018

and/or
The French Republican Calendar:
A Case Study in the Sociology of Time
Eviatar Zerubavel
American Sociological Review
Vol. 42, No. 6 (Dec. 1977)
p. 868-877

Week 4 - In time

Week 5 - Reel rail

Le train en marche
(The Train Rolls On)
Chris Marker
1971
31:26
Propaganda in Motion: Dziga Vertov's and Aleksandr Medvedkin's Film Trains and Agit Steamers of the 1920s and 1930s
Adelheid Heftberger
Apparatus Journal
No. 1, 2015
89 mm od Europy
(89mm from Europe)
Marcel Łoziński
1993
11:41

Week 6 - Passing

RR (Part 1)(Part 2)
James Benning
2007
1:55:00

Interviews | Trainspotting with James Benning
with Mark Person
Cinema Scope
train ride NYC - L.A. Summer 2020 (footage and text)
Philipp Farra
2020

Class guest: Philipp Farra

Week 7 - Tracking

Week 8 - On time