“Which came first, the house or the road leading to the house?” (Brickenhoff.)
Street is the site of movement, a place for moving, symbolic of moving image as journey becomes conceptual. Travel is involved as the body prepares to vanish, eyes taking to the illuminated field aggregating on-screen microenvironments, formed by interests and routes, in whatever capacity the parallel temporary landscape draws, often with implications of other cities entirely.
We are frequently watching films at home, close to home, in familiar theatres: what does it mean to show films from Other places at home. Are movies a bout a particular place, screened at a particular place, by locals, home movies? What’s the experience of being a pilgrim and make films about place? Does that introduce questions of authenticity, tourism, documentary research, meaning for films on the move.
My monitor: a public space portal. YouTube continues to offer us amateur filmmaking, now the road more traveled. Are we free to safely and obtusely revisit colonial leisure-class, train-window travel from our sofa as the sacred space of single-screen theatres diminishes.
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