This film shows the capacity of the camera to suspend or speed up the viewer’s perception of motion. It is a film without words or people, where the screen is alive with light, movement and sound. Fleeting impressions are greatly accelerated as from the windows of a speeding train. The sun rockets through a vortex of clouds, light flickers — all to the shythm of chattering wheels.
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Collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
505061
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Crafts & Visual Arts → Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)