Figure With 14 Trains
Identifier
F.2025-04-0013
Date Of Production
circa 1981
Abstract
Chicago buildings in the fog and passing trains are superimposed with images of a restlessly sleeping man.
"One film, FIGURE WITH 14 TRAINS (7 min, sound), exists in a sort-of middle ground between documentary and experimentation. Around and superimposed through images of a man in bed are elegiac shots of Chicago trains, suggesting something almost erotic, much like SWIM, but it’s unequivocal in its depiction of the transit system as a wondrous framework." — Kat Sachs, Cine-File (“Cine-List June 12 - June 18, 2020”).
Format
Super 8
Extent
100 feet
Color
B&W
Sound
Silent
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Notes
The corresponding audio for this film (featuring a record of "Irkanda IV" by composer Peter Sculthorpe) can be found on a separate cassette tape in the collection.
Element
Reversal Positives ➜ Work Prints
Genre
Form
Subject
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Main Credits
Bruns, Norm (is filmmaker)
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