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A night screening in a Kyiv courtyard, the audience gathered before a glowing screen, a painted face on the building above
“I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had.”
Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
A seated audience at a riverside night screening in Kyiv
Kyiv, riverside
An inflatable screen at dusk, people lying on the grass in front of it
Ukraine, at dusk
An audience on the grass at night, lit by streetlamps
Ukraine, after dark
Riders pedalling bicycles to power a night screening inside a roofless industrial ruin
Italy · Photo: CicloCinema (ciclocinema.org)
Bicycle cinema

A documentary atlas of pedal-powered cinema.

A seated audience before a glowing screen at a night screening in Novara
Novara, Italy · ASSA Novara, Cinema a pedali sotto le stelle
bicyclecinema.org →
An animated film on a large screen in a darkened hall, a rider pedalling the generator that powers it
Proud to feature · Oaxaca, Mexico

Cine Bajo el Cielo

Children make the films. Through its Ciclocinema program, Cine Bajo el Cielo runs free stop‑motion workshops in communities across Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz, in Nahuatl, Tsotsil, Tseltal, Ch’ol and Spanish. Then the films premiere outdoors, powered by the audience pedalling a cargo‑bike generator donated by the Open Air Cinema Foundation.

Watch the children’s films → Cine Bajo el Cielo →
A night audience gathered under a tarpaulin before a screen
An audience seated in a long red-and-white corridor watching a screening
Girls arranging paper cut-outs under a camera at a stop-motion workshop
Photos: Cine Bajo el Cielo

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