Before + After

BEFORE & AFTER DVD with interactive sound track 1 Hour 2004

Before and After projects a split screen through which video footage recorded from two angles thread continuously from the beginning of a train journey to the end forever coming and going.

The visual cross over of simultaneous camera shots assume positions where the same thing is never recorded at the same time. A list of songs offer the viewer the choice of compiling the theme track strongly influenceing the mood of the compiled video footage. The video pauses when the song ends and resumes when the viewer chooses another. By completely submitting to the element of sound to objectify the emotional content, allows the lyrics to narrate each story, creating a moody cinematic experience.

Before / forwards : the approaching landscape evokes the epic journey. The familiar train ride to my job transversed 3 days a week forms this passing backdrop of a mundane suburban landscape. Its specificity of location is sublimated through its movement of persistent forging.

After / backwards : offers the advantage of hindsight, as well a glimpses of objects in the foreground before they appear in the first screen. The future rapidly becomes the past.