Station to Station
2015 • 71 minutes
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About this movie
Station to Station is the 2015 experimental film of Doug Aitken's 2013 "Nomadic Happening", the film is made up of 62 one-minute films. It was distributed internationally to more than a half dozen international markets in 2015 following its release at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has been included on a list of the best 20 films to be set on trains.
The Hollywood Reporter described the project in an article as: "Artist-director Doug Aitken directed the semi-experimental Station to Station... the feature, 71 minutes in total including the opening and end credits, was shot over the course of 24 days in 2013, when a train with Aitken’s “kinetic light sculpture, ” fixed to the train’s outer shell, traveled from New York to San Francisco. Aboard the vehicle and along the way, at 10 different stops, art happenings with participants from media ranging from music and photography to dance and the visual arts were organized....They all find their way into the film organically, which thus becomes a meditation on art, travel and transience. an artwork that looks at other art — a concept film about a conceptual art project.
The Hollywood Reporter described the project in an article as: "Artist-director Doug Aitken directed the semi-experimental Station to Station... the feature, 71 minutes in total including the opening and end credits, was shot over the course of 24 days in 2013, when a train with Aitken’s “kinetic light sculpture, ” fixed to the train’s outer shell, traveled from New York to San Francisco. Aboard the vehicle and along the way, at 10 different stops, art happenings with participants from media ranging from music and photography to dance and the visual arts were organized....They all find their way into the film organically, which thus becomes a meditation on art, travel and transience. an artwork that looks at other art — a concept film about a conceptual art project.