The Wait and The Meanwhile is a study of boredom through the gaze of travellers. It also tends to explore the pleasure of inspecting the actions and agencies of a human body when confronted with a moment of pure delay. To capture this, I chose to go to the place where waiting, pausing, halting and lingering is most visible: the train station.
Speculating around the subject of “desiring machines”, the formal structure for this film was supposed to be like split rings, where you can attach and detach any of the scenes without taking away the core concept. You might just view a single scene (which is a minimum of 20 seconds) and you will more or less, consciously or unconsciously will be aware of the concept. However, each scene has its own condition, voice, tone and setting. It is in a sense, a film of concepts. It is different from documentary essays since it has (or claims to have) a poetic symbolism involved. As Gilles Deleuze suggested, to look at a concept is to look at the essence of things, or to look at the situation in which things happen. Here, the concept is waiting, meanwhile and the boredom that stems from the delay.
About two centuries ago, boredom was luxurious. It belonged to those who could afford to often have no work and no responsibilities, for example, a royal family. Therefore, boredom is a problem of modernity. Especially the existential boredom.
Speculating around the subject of “desiring machines”, the formal structure for this film was supposed to be like split rings, where you can attach and detach any of the scenes without taking away the core concept. You might just view a single scene (which is a minimum of 20 seconds) and you will more or less, consciously or unconsciously will be aware of the concept. However, each scene has its own condition, voice, tone and setting. It is in a sense, a film of concepts. It is different from documentary essays since it has (or claims to have) a poetic symbolism involved. As Gilles Deleuze suggested, to look at a concept is to look at the essence of things, or to look at the situation in which things happen. Here, the concept is waiting, meanwhile and the boredom that stems from the delay.
About two centuries ago, boredom was luxurious. It belonged to those who could afford to often have no work and no responsibilities, for example, a royal family. Therefore, boredom is a problem of modernity. Especially the existential boredom.
Production year: 2023
Roles: Director, Cinematographer
Runtime: 00:16:50
16:9, Colour, Stereo
Roles: Director, Cinematographer
Runtime: 00:16:50
16:9, Colour, Stereo
