Guy Sherwin/ Night Train(1979)

Night Train (1979) Guy Sherwin

Night Train started out as a silent observational film about relative motion.
Long shutter-times were used to record lights seen from a train as it passed through a changing landscape.

A 16mm camera is clamped to the open window of train, facing across the direction of travel.

The camera shutter-speed is slow, about 1/2 second. The lights in the landscape are recorded as horizontal traces- the nearer a light is to the train, or the faster the train, the longer the streak of light.

(via Guy Sherwin Optical Sound Films 1971-2007)