Outerborough

Bill Morrison / United States / 2005 / Czech Premiere / 9 min.

synopsis

In 1899, a cameraman from the American company Mutoscope & Biograph attached his equipment to a moving train. Bill Morrison has recompiled the original footage, using a split screen, multiple exposures, and dynamic units, to present the unique vibrating experience of a trip through time across the Brooklyn Bridge.

“The journey from one side of the East River to the other becoming a unit of both time and space, increasingly compressible and distributable.“ Bill Morrison