Overture
- Gerald Creede
- Stan Douglas
Description:
Overture by Stan Douglas is an installation with a six-minute audiovisual film loop and projection box. The loop consists of three black-and-white film segments shot by the Edison Film Company between 1889 and 1901, capturing a train’s passage through the Canadian Rockies from a fixed front-facing camera. The footage is accompanied by Vancouver writer Gerald Creede reading six passages from Marcel Proust’s “Overture” to À la recherche du temps perdu that reflects on the liminal state between sleep and wakefulness.
Video documentation is available upon request.
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