Dirs. Sufjan Stevens & Reuben Kleiner USA 2009 40mins
The UK premiere of musical genius Sufjan Stevens’ film, commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and inspired by the stop start motion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – and also the Hula-Hoop. The result is a widescreen triptych ode to a potholed, serpentine trunk road that doesn’t really work. New York’s “other boroughs” are captured by utilising time-lapse photography and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into beautiful compositions. Accompanied by Stevens’ band and a chamber orchestra, the soundtrack is inspired by Gershwin, Terry Riley, Charles Ives and Warp Records’ Autechre. Sufjan Stevens “The B.Q.E” licensed courtesy of Rough Trade Records Ltd and New Jerusalem Music.
www.roughtraderecords.com / www.newjerusalemmusic.com
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Dir. Paul Windridge UK 2009 8mins Quadroscopic split screen
On this night time underground, overground train journey we travel in a time-altered, mirrored world which turns reality, quite literally, on it’s head and motivates us to view it in a completely different way.
