THE CRYSTAL EXPRESS FILM TEXT:
2012-2013: ADIDAS, PIONEER WORKS, NEW YORK CITY
Experimental film
The film explores movement and the creative process, inspired and propelled by the energy of constant travel. It captures seven artists who started as strangers, and seven cities - some of which they knew - seen in short bursts. Landscape flowing into landscape, train platform or sleeping car, sunsets and sunrises, experimental gatherings or silent moments.
Extracts from “ The Game of Shifting Mirrors” became the thematic framework for the film, as well as its voiceover. The cities explored were Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Gyoma, Bucharest, Istanbul.
Total running time: 4:24
Writer and producer: Samina Virani
Director: Gandja Monteiro
Project link: https://www.101010n.com/thecrystalexpress
Adidas film link: https://vimeo.com/86903923
CONNECTED WORKS:
PERFORMATIVE RESEARCH: THE CRYSTAL EXPRESS
POETRY: THE GAME OF SHIFTING MIRRORS
INSTALLATION: SPINNING WHEEL OF ILLUMINATION
COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS: CRYSTAL BALL BCN/NYC