AIRBUS

2012

Airbus: a short film about a focal plane that separates an Airbus from its passengers.

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NOTE: monochannel video exhibited in loop

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A video-projection of a series of photographs of anonymous people sleeping in an airport. A camera-zoom picks out each passenger as it hurtles through layers of eternally re-focusable moments, penetrating multiple spheres of private and public dream-space, The camera's zooming and tracking is propelled by the incessant rumblings of an Airbus, suspended in perpetual time-travel, weaving the stillness of photographic time into the unstoppable flight of cinematic time. Within sight of waiting rooms and airport lounges, the gargantuan airbus hovers over us: a reminder of our collective will for air travel.

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A note on cinematic production:

Starting in the 80s, American cinema has developed a trend os using more extreme focal lengths and an increased number of camera moves. To stage a whole scene in one shot is no longer common: that kind of staging is a lost art. It means making choices, real choices, and sticking to them. The film explores the open-ended possibilities of an endless tracking shot that reveals visual narratives created when image planes are displaced, altering the focus of single object planes.

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O Zoom de uma câmera penetra o mundo público-privado do sono de passageiros aereos, propulsionado pelo ronzido incessante do motor de um Airbus, fundindo o instante fotográfico no vôo livre do tempo cinematográfico.