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Trains director Maciej Drygas and producer Vita Zelakeviciute will participate in Q&As following the 4:15 P.M. show on Saturday 10/18 and on Sunday, 10/19 at the Monica Film Center; after the 7:00 P.M. show on Thursday, 10/16 at the Town Center; after the 7:30 P.M. show on Monday, 10/20 at the Noho; and after the 7:30 P.M. show on Tuesday, 10/21 at the Glendale.
Trains
A timeless, thought-provoking work of great formal beauty... Riveting – in both senses of the word.
-- Screen Daily
Trains
TRAINS is a “found-footage” documentary consisting of solely archival materials, which creates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
A train compartment is a place where, for a while, people are taken out of their everyday context. For a few hours or days, they inhabit a temporary community, and their lives unfold according to a timetable. A train journey is something beautiful, magical, but also often very dramatic. Sometimes, the journey is accompanied by the hope that something will change in our lives upon reaching the destination, or conversely, by a stark absence of hope.
And yet the history of the world unfolds in railway carriages in repeating refrain. Every few years, hauntingly similar scenes occur at railway stations worldwide: carriages filled with men going off to war, only to return wounded or as casualties. This cycle is followed by an exodus of civilians, evacuees mingling with prisoners of war returning from camps, and soldiers of victorious armies leading the defeated, until ordinary passengers once again appear at the stations.
TRAINS is an artistic endeavor to explore new possibilities in expanding the language of cinema and to rebuild the emotional connection between the viewer and archival reality.
A train compartment is a place where, for a while, people are taken out of their everyday context. For a few hours or days, they inhabit a temporary community, and their lives unfold according to a timetable. A train journey is something beautiful, magical, but also often very dramatic. Sometimes, the journey is accompanied by the hope that something will change in our lives upon reaching the destination, or conversely, by a stark absence of hope.
And yet the history of the world unfolds in railway carriages in repeating refrain. Every few years, hauntingly similar scenes occur at railway stations worldwide: carriages filled with men going off to war, only to return wounded or as casualties. This cycle is followed by an exodus of civilians, evacuees mingling with prisoners of war returning from camps, and soldiers of victorious armies leading the defeated, until ordinary passengers once again appear at the stations.
TRAINS is an artistic endeavor to explore new possibilities in expanding the language of cinema and to rebuild the emotional connection between the viewer and archival reality.
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
Runtime
80
Language
Polish,
English
Director
Maciej Drygas
Writer(s)
Rafał Listopad
Opening at
Town Center 5 on Oct 16th
Monica Film Center on Oct 17th
NoHo 7 on Oct 20th
Glendale on Oct 21st
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