To celebrate 70 years at the Grand Palais, the SNCF gave carte blanche to a collective of video artists who remixed daily life in a voyage of the senses. Ready for the SNCF experience...
with video artists Trafik and Maize. They were allowed 'all areas access' to the SNCF's old audiovisual archives - 70 years of history, which they have turned into 9 minutes 46 of techno cut-and-paste madness. Ready for departure?
It's a one-of-a-kind journey through railway sounds - whistle blasts and screeching axle noises, the sounds of passengers chatting and signalmen shouting instructions. Your visual senses are flooded with logos, clocks and signals, ticking away with machine-like precision. After 9 min 46, the journey is over, but check you've not left your dreams behind in the train...