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Terminus For You - Nicolas Rey (France, 1996, 16mm, 10:00 min)
“Rey’s film uses a simple, classic trope of
contemporary urban life: the moving walkway at the subway station becomes a
dual symbol, an evocation of the human condition in the industrial world, as
well as a metaphor for the workings of the most representative of the era’s art
forms: the cinema. Like the film loop, the walkway circles endlessly, yet its
visible portion, shadowing the human walk, offers an illusion of linear progression,
transporting human bodies from A to B with the smooth lateral movement of a
traveling shot, and the pre-determined direction and calculated time of an
endlessly repeated scenario. (…) Urban life’s mechanical rhythms continue to
provide an artificial sense of continuity, direction and purpose where
fragmentation and senselessness reign.”
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