Sophie had edited the film footage she took in the airport and made it into a sort of documentary of our day. I think the recordings with us talking while Sophie filmed planes, the sky etc had a fantastic sense of detachment. Sophie had also tracked down the music we had heard playing whilst in the terminal and dubbed it over footage taken from the position of luggage on a trolly being pushed across the terminal, slightly sped up the passers by appear to almost dance past creating a rather comical sight!
We thought it might be interesting to re-create our experience at it clearly sparked some interesting and surreal conversation and visuals. Reluctant to return to the airport and feeling it was unnecessary to do so because we were interested in the feeling of lacking purpose in a place we tried to think of alternative places. After our tutor suggested somewhere like a supermarket or shopping centre was reminiscent of an airport for example the escalators and shops surrounding a large walkway. There would also be a steady flow of people coming and going...
So I suggested we go to the shopping centre in Elephant and Castle, which incidentally is at one 'end' of the Bakerloo line and is going to be demolished as part of a regeneration scheme in the area. We felt these factors could additionally hold resonance with the project title Terminus Exodus.
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