Terminus

2004 // 9’19” // stereo // USA

audio for a dark cinema by
Esther Johnson

featuring
previous employees of the New York Central Terminal, Buffalo

distribution
Blanche Pictures

funded by
National Endowment for the Arts, USA

Made during an International Digital Filmmaker Residency at Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

“Verticality, iconography and permanence, and when you have those three things in a building, people quickly respond.”

Investigating the nature of memory and resonance within architecture and place, Terminus weaves a tapestry of taped telephone conversations with those who once worked in the grand New York Central Terminal in Buffalo during its heyday.

Gallery Exhibitions

Experimental Film Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, New York 03.05
Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Arts Center, Buffalo, USA 10.04