Euston 2:00 am
Catch me if you can.
Catch me if you can.
The film explores the ideas that characterise the typical late-capitalist non-space/ place; perpetual novelty, mediatisation of culture, spectacle or image society, automation etc. The film employs techniques that have been developed in previous work, pre-dominantly camera projection and textured surfaces . [this will be in keeping with the 2 dimensional theme park spectacle that characterises the non-place]
The films looks at what happens to Euston station after closing. With the ever increasing emphasis on novelty and turnover in late capitalist society, I speculate that Euston station as a major conduit for tourists, mobile workers, shoppers etc, might develop a degree of paranoia, worried that it might lose its sensation hungry user base the station sets about frantically re-calibrating itself each night. The station would make minute changes that would update and augment the existing space pandering to the insatiable need of its users for bigger and better things.
‘Catch me if you can’ refers to Richard Trevithick famous ‘catch me who can’ locomotive that was exhibited first at Euston station as a demonstration of how a steam train was faster than a horse. The event marks the important development from biological to mechanised transport and characterises the notion of constant progress implicit in the film.
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