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Night open-air screening in a village square: a seated crowd on a grass slope faces a lit screen while a row of cyclists pedals beside it, with pastel townhouses and a church bell tower behind

Featured: Cine Bajo el Cielo, Mexico

Premiere in a covered courtyard: children who made the films line up with their certificates before an inflatable screen and a Ciclocinema banner, the cargo-bike generator and its cables in the foreground
Photo: Cine Bajo el Cielo (facebook.com/Cinebajoelcielo) — via facebook.com

Cine Bajo el Cielo has taken children's stop-motion workshops and pedal-powered premieres to more than 50 Mexican communities on one donated cargo bike 1. In December 2023, six of the films, in Nahuatl, Tsotsil, Tseltal, Ch'ol and Spanish, aired as a series on Canal 22 2.

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Three ways in

  • Daytime crowd pedalling at the Cinema a Pedal festival in Nigrán
    Photo: Festival Cinema a Pedal (Nigrán) (ciclosfera.com) — via ciclosfera.com
    By place

    A map and ten regional pages.

  • Night screening on a cathedral plaza: a bicycle generator on its stand beside a tripod-mounted screen showing fireworks, the lit cathedral behind
    Photo: Cine Bajo el Cielo (facebook.com/Cinebajoelcielo) — via facebook.com
    By theme

    How it works, people, numbers, history, safety.

  • Cinécyclo touring cinema setup screening outdoors off-grid
    Photo: Cinécyclo (cinecyclo.com) — via cinecyclo.com
    By chance

    Take me somewhere.

World map teaser showing status-coded pins for every documented entry
World map with status-coded pins Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus

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Every documented entry, status-coded, from Freiburg to Oaxaca.

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Six nodes on the timeline

  1. 1921Gaumont's Lumicycle patent
  2. 1970China's rural network
  3. 2007Magnificent Revolution
  4. 2014Cinécyclo and Efecto Pedal
  5. 2016KLAK and the Wuhan study
  6. 2027Mercury-lamp exemption under review

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Sources

  1. [1]Bike Friday — Pedal Powered Movie Magic in Mexico, 18/01/2017bikefriday.com
  2. [2]Secretaría de Cultura / Canal 22 — Mx Nuestro Cine presenta Ciclocinema, historias de mi comunidad (comunicado, 18/12/2023)www.gob.mx