Second Class Travelling (2013) Tereshko Alena

Materials for this video were filmed in the train from St. Petersburg to Astana. In the secondclass carriage on the upper side of the shelf (this is the common place you get when you buy a secondclass ticket). I spend two days in the train, and this video captures all the highlights of the trip. In this piece, as in my previous work I try to explore the boundaries of the frame and the amount of the space which I can see through the lens. This work is also the kind of social research for me. Trains and cars are the over social spaces, very often overcrowded as you can see it here. People are forced to go into crowd, to spend time among strangers and it is often quite uncomfortable. This space is perceived differently in connection with these terms, it is like a small separate life. Perhaps this is because of the constant movement, and that travelling always has the beginning and the end. Anyway, for me it is interesting not only because of formal but because there is also some history of human life.