Freight
a short film by Lawrence Bird
3:20 | Experimental | B&W | June 2025
Techniques: Hand Process (b&w), Time Lapse, Optically Printed, Stop Motion, Live Action
Language: English
“(for Freight) Freight trains crisscross the continent bearing goods, materials, and messages—signals read as symbols, surfaces, and textures.”
Trains crisscrossing the continent bear goods and materials from field to port; but they carry messages too. Captured furtively in a rainstorm, this film explores those signals as symbols, surfaces, textures. Like Elizabeth Cotten’s “Freight Train” manipulated to create this film’s soundtrack, we might imagine what a freight train is, where it goes and what it might carry with it.
M_obile
a short film by Lawrence Bird
8:40 | Experimental | Colour, B&W | January 2024
Language: English
“What is hunted, what is found, in the gap between now and then?”
M_obile replays and rearranges eight sequences from Fritz Lang’s “M” (1931), recording them on a cell phone as they play back on a malfunctioning computer monitor. The broken monitor superimposes successive frames, rendering two distinct frameworks: the moving body, dissolving, fluid; and its material frame, architecture, super-solid. What if these sequences, these fragments of story, are then re-arranged? Who is hunting who, who is caught, who is judged, who is finally imprisoned?
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