Hi! This week we have to talk about our favorite piece of technology and it's a very hard question to answer, everything around us is very technologic nowadays. When I was around fourteen I entered for the first time at the projection area of an old cinema in Talca and it was amazing! Seeing the machines that project the films onto the screen i feel like i was Toto in cinema paradiso! There's an history about how when Thomas Edison wrote the patent to the cinema (although others have previously make cinema machines in europe) he patented the “images in movement” 

I think even if I hate that patent and the idea that all the images come from his invention, I cannot find a better word to my favorite piece of technology, the images in movement. I really cannot recommend enough the Maximo Gorki poem “Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows” when he described the first time he saw the Lumiere brothers show, the first cinema-like spectacle, in black and white and with no sound. 

One of the first thing i bought when i move to Santiago to study was my own (and very very small) projector, it dies in 2019 but last year i bought another one, also very small but a little more powerfull, im now saving for purchasing another, one with more power to use it in theater plays to make mapping, i think the images in movement are now a integral part in the way i view my discipline.





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  1. Hi Kristian!, the cinema os wonderful!,take care of your small projector.
    PD: I love Cinema Paradiso!!

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  2. What projector u have in mind to buy? i need one for the same porpouse, the profesor Cristian Canto is so good in our classes that i really want a projector for myself now :(!

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