THE UNDERGROUND PROJECT is a New York City/Berlin-based art project that aims to bring people together to investigate human behavior in the underground transit systems of cities around the world. Using video created from still photography as our medium, the project strives to capture the chaotic interactions and intimate moments of anonymous individuals who all share the same immediate goal: catching the next train.
What happens between people - their expressions, moods, and stories - is left up to the subjective interpretation of the audience. The execution of the project, the actual creation of the individual frames, is purely accidental as we use total objectivity in capturing the frames. The stories are simply that which unfolds in the brief space of time as we shoot at a specific underground station in a specific city. The rhythm of action comes like waves as trains arrive and leave the station causing crowds of commuters to suddenly come alive like water boiling in a kettle.
What happens between people - their expressions, moods, and stories - is left up to the subjective interpretation of the audience. The execution of the project, the actual creation of the individual frames, is purely accidental as we use total objectivity in capturing the frames. The stories are simply that which unfolds in the brief space of time as we shoot at a specific underground station in a specific city. The rhythm of action comes like waves as trains arrive and leave the station causing crowds of commuters to suddenly come alive like water boiling in a kettle.
Director
Fedele Spadafora And Stefanie Schairer
Producer
Fedele Spadafora And Stefanie Schairer
Writer
Fedele Spadafora And Stefanie Schairer
Cinematographer
Fedele Spadafora, Stefanie Schairer, Margery Newman, Lilian Radovac, Nicola Pellegrini
Editor
Crew
Lilian Radovac
Margery Newman
Wendy Umanoff
Jeanhee Kim
Spencer Sunshine
Nike Forsander Lorentsen
XieTianzi
Helena Todd
Gergely Markó
Krisztian Dombrad
Margery Newman
Wendy Umanoff
Jeanhee Kim
Spencer Sunshine
Nike Forsander Lorentsen
XieTianzi
Helena Todd
Gergely Markó
Krisztian Dombrad
Length
7:30
Released
01 January 2010
Genre
Country
Edition
Screenings
November 2009, Visions in New York City
Interview

