Subway Stutter Cutting (067) explores movement and repetition within the context of a subway station. Every second, the video loops back half a second in time; stuttering through the footage.
The repetition highlights unnoticed subtleties. The slight motion of shifting from one foot to another, glancing down at the platform, or crossing one’s hands are interrupted and then repeated.
The movement of the train in the background is registered against the stationary columns in the foreground. Without the movement of people against the whizzing train, would stutter-cutting even be evident?
Looping and repetition makes the bygone quality of the footage obvious. In seeming things twice, we know that at least part of the video stream isn’t live. The stutter creates a new time context, in which the scene plays out over twice the length of time in which the original was recorded.
Technicals
The video was filmed on a Nikon D610, at the W 4th Subway Station. It was cut together using Adobe Premier.
Compare to:
- Routine Tracking (060): if only the people who barely moved were tracked, would we even register time or change?
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