#x-ray train

‘The duo, whose name is derived from various brothers involved in the film and art world — Warner Bros., Coen Bros. and Chapman Bros — strive to recreate, in all of their work, the same level of shock and effect that “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat” by the Lumiere Brothers, one of the first-ever films, was received with in 1895.

“We start with film, and when we shoot a film it is connected to the Lumiere brothers,” explains Yuka.

“(In 1895), the audience thought a real train was coming (into the theater), so the brothers had real power through their images. But now, when we watch the same film we don’t actually think it’s a real train. We want to try to gain that same initial effect and power.”’

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2010/05/14/arts/mickey-springs-his-mouse-trap/#.VZaYUefUY-Z

‘Japanese audiences are very respectful - quiet and static. They sit and watch, but don't go around the pieces. When we showed EICON in Paris, the audience went behind the screen and touched it to feel its physicality. In Vienna we showed X-Ray Train at MQ Museum Quatier and there people went between the screens. I asked one man why, and he said it was very exciting because he felt as if the train was coming towards him. Some children were trying to catch the screen, so we thought they must have also felt the existence of the image.’