Subway 123

SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3
By G.H. Hovagimyan
The subway is a defining urban experience across cultures.
Underground and in the subconscious, every rider experiences a
disjunctive experience when entering one place and emerging in a
different one. In day-to-day experience, time spent on a subway
ride can resemble lost footage between cuts in a movie. But when a
movie includes scenes shot in a subway, the subway passage becomes
a shared, collective experience. Familiarity with subway scenes from
movies have become part of the contemporary vernacular, creating
“Oh I remember that film!” reactions. Movie scenes shot in subways
also trigger deeper feelings as the viewer defines and redefines
personal and shared experiences. In the work I have created using
subway scenes from movies, narrative conventions of standard film
techniques have been removed to further the exploration of
submerged emotions.
The installation includes three video loops of one hour each. The piece
is designed as a three-panel projection with the three loops running
simultaneously. Since the individual movie clips in each loop are of
varying aspect ratios, I selected a standard 1280 x 720 pixel ratio and
fit the clips into that size. By doing that, some of the clips are
squeezed into higher definition and others become pixilated. The use
of translation and codec problems, and the variations produced by
varied definition are an integral part of the work. Visual association,
media memory, and a collective experience can be furthered by asking
the viewer to adapt to differences. The completed artwork is composed
entirely of re-purposed cinema found solely on the Internet
highlighting the question of copyright on the internet.
The complete subway movie list is provided below for reference. The
movies with dots after their names had subway sequences that I
gleaned from the Internet and are included in the work.
Here’s the movie list. The ones with dots after their names are the ones I was
able to glean from the Internet and are included in the work.
48 Hrs Cowboy Way Just Another Girl on the
A Taste of Tea‚• Creep‚• IRT
Adventures in Baby- Crocodile Dundee King Kong‚•
Sitting‚• Daredevil King of Comedy
After‚• Daybreak Express‚• King of New York‚•
After Hours‚• Death Wish Knowing‚•
Along Came A Spider Little Fugitive Sleeper Cell‚•
American Werewolf In Little Nicky Sliding Doors
London Lost in Translation songs from the 2nd floor
American Werewolf In Malcolm X Speed
Paris‚• Maniac Step Up 2‚•
Annie Hall Marathon Man Strange Days
Bang the drum slowly Matrix Revolutions Subway (by Luc
Barbershop 2: Back In Men in Black 2 Besson)‚•
Business Midnight Cowboy Suicide Club‚•
Beethoven Virus‚• Midnight Meat Train‚• SUPERMAN: THE
BENEATH THE PLANET Mimic MOVIE
OF THE APES Money Train Swat
Blade‚• Mr. Wonderful SWIMMING POOL
Bless the Child My Best Friends TAKING OF PELHAM
Bless the Child trailer‚• Wedding 1,2,3
ButterflyMole‚• My Boss's Daughter Taxi Driver
Brother From Another My Dinner with Andre Teenage Mutant Ninja
Planet‚• Naked City Turtles
Carlito's Way‚• Network Teenage Mutant Ninja
Collateral Neverwhere (Neil Turtles: Secret of the
Condemned‚• Gaimens ) Ooze
Conspiracy Theory Next Stop Greenwich They
Die Another Day Village Three and Out‚•
Die Hard With a Nighthawks Total Recall
Vengance North by Northwest Trackman‚•
Do the Right Thing Ocean's Eleven (2001) Train Simulator‚•
Edmond‚• ODDESSA FILE Trick‚•
End of Days On The Line Tube‚•
Fame Paycheck Twelve Angry Men
FBI Story Passer By Underworld.
Flatliners Pi‚• Untouchables
FRENCH CONNECTION Pickup On South Street‚• volcano ‚•
II Predator II Waking the Dead‚•
Getting Even With Dad Prizzi's Honor WARRIORS‚•
Ghost‚• Pursuit of Happyness Weekend at Bernie's II
Ghostbusters Quartermass and the West Side Story
Godfather Pit‚• When Harry met Sally
Godzilla Resident Evil? While you were Sleeping
Happyness‚• Risky Buisness Wings of Desire‚•
HUNTED Rosemary's Baby Wrong Man
Incident Rules of Attraction Yards‚•
Inner Circle‚• Saturday Night Fever You've Got Mail
Irreversible. Serendipity
ITALIAN JOB (2003) Seven Year Itch‚•
Jacob's Ladder Silver Streak

Subway 123

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Subway 123

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Subway 123

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3

You might also like