A beige sedan. An aqueduct. A newspaper stand. Telephone wires. Station announcements. Snippets of conversation. All captured on January 7, 1993 by a college student riding the Amtrak San Joaquins through Central California with his VHS-C camcorder, on the way back to his last semester at school in Los Angeles.
95 MOMENTS ON A TRAIN assembles every moment of the footage and combines it with a propulsive FM synth score written at the time, for a short film that was never made until now. The result is a time capsule of the 1990s, a collision of grunge video with modern devices and split screen — plus the ability to remix the film yourself in endless ways.
Choose the shots and layouts, the frame rates, colors, and effects, and use your own music as the soundtrack. Add your own poetic or meditative text and slap it on top of the footage with masking tape. Or just set the sleep timer and let the sounds of the rails coax you to a nap.
• A meditative VHS time capsule from the 1990s, filmed on a single day
• Includes a original FM synth score written for the film
• Featuring optional random journal fragments from the time
• Fully dynamic — never plays the same way twice
• Remix the film with a range of audio, video, content, layout, and frame rate options
• Includes twenty preset variations on the film
• Audio options let you use your own music as the soundtrack
• Add your own poetic text as masking tape labels on the footage
• Sleep timer lets you fall asleep to the sounds of the rails
• Autoplay feature plays the film on its own
