As a visitor descends the stairway into the Screen Gallery, her path will leave a trace through which imagery will emerge from the past — people ascending from a train platform in Australia one hundred years ago. The artwork is a live interplay between the present and the past. As ACMI visitors descend the stairs to encounter the future of screen arts, they pass through the lingering and ever-present influence of cinematic history. A wondrous, benign space of haunting, the staircase initiates Screen Gallery visitors into the ever-present power of cinematic history.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Previously on display
31 August 2003
ACMI Screen Gallery
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1002023
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Object Types
Installation
Materials
Single-channel video, software and projection