gleis (‘track’ in German) is a short experimental film shot on an old mobile phone from inside a train en route from Berlin to Frankfurt in 2010. It is the first completed piece of a new series 39A (named after an airline seat number), which is a body of work resulting from time in Germany. Typical of my work, gleis visually and sonically explores minimalism, the experiential, and meditative or hypnotic states that can manifest in simple everyday life scenarios. It also explores the means of prevalent and affordable everyday technology as an art medium. With gleis, I was fascinated by the blurred minimalist color field quality of the image through the lo-fi phone camera. The soundtrack is a self produced original score, with added ‘Om’ like sounds of the train on track. It was composed with intent to emphasize the rhythmic and repetitive dreamlike imagery. As a result, I feel that gleis is suitably demonstrative of the contemplative notion of ‘moment’. – abb-r
more work from 39A to come…

best wishes,

Alan

bauhaus-archiv museum, berlin