"Parallel Carriage" D: Eleanor Suess, GB 2017

Running time: 2’

The film considers the uncanny nature of the experience of passing another train at night, where the windows into the space of that other carriage are pools of light in a black void, offering portals into another world. Individual windows slowed down to 10% of real time draw out the movement of the inhabitants of that parallel carriage. The soundtrack to that “other” space, is produced from the space of the carriage from which the camera, filmmaker, and viewer are located – slowed down to match the images, it becomes an abstract roar, echoing the black void which the windows flow through.

Authors:

  • Eleanor Suess

    Eleanor Suess is an architect, film-artist, and educator, with a background in fine arts, architectural practice, and architectural education. Eleanor has qualifications in Fine Arts and Architecture from Australia and the UK. She is currently the Head of the Department of Architecture & Landscape at Kingston University, London.
    Eleanor’s work lies in the intersection between architecture and art practice. Interdisciplinary installation work has been exhibited at the Adelaide International Arts Festival, and experimental film work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, Australia and Hong Kong. Her research focuses on structural/materialist film as spatiotemporal architectural drawing, and includes the production of digital artists’ film as a form of architectural drawing.

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