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Film Lingual 3 June 5 - 20, 2009

Arriving / Departing Digital Loop (2009) Dana Plays

Dana Plays

Filmed at the train station at Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, with the DSLR Canon Mark 5 D2 Camera Looped for exhibition on DVD

Arriving / Departing pays homage to the first films created by the Lumière Brothers -- L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (1895) and Dziga Vertov’s train sequences in Man with a Movie Camera. In a recent trip to the Cannes Film Festival, I set out on the train to Villefranche sur-Mer (as Woman with a Movie Camera) with my camera and tripod to capture images of locations for The Sausage King’s Daughter (my feature film work in- progress about my great a Ottilie Moore, who sponsored the artist Charlotte Salomon, and others during WWII in the South of France). The visual aesthetics of these pictures explore both the magic of capturing a moving image on film (in this case digital) of train arriving and departing the train station, and secondly exploring the visual dynamics of overlay montage rich with potential visual metaphor.

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