This is a tribute to the convention of painted backdrop in early cinema. Set up like an indoor studio floor, the installation has a screen on which an animated film of painted cityscape is projected. As a gym cycle, placed in front of the screen, gets activated by a spectator/cyclist, two cameras shoot the cyclist and throw the image back on the screen. The composite image makes the cyclist a protagonist of the road movie.

Reincarnating the genre of film shooting with painted backdrops for landscapes, the installation invites the viewer to participate in the process of image reproduction. Through the contemporary video device the viewer can opt to be a part of animated outdoor images while comfortably placed within an indoor space.

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Animation rendering: Anand Bhutkar
Technical consultant: Abeer Gupta
Image (assistant): Nilesh Kawle

Part of Project Cinema City, 2012