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Escalator
 
Director & Producer: Vishal Shah
Sound: Vishal Shah
Origination: DV (Digital Video)
Audio: On
Duration: 6'30' excerpt in preview window
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Distribution format: DVD Pal
Production: 2003
 
'Escalator' a video about everyday urban systems, transformed via a kaleidoscopic patterning, becomes the form and content of a cinematic meditation.
Vishal brings to play metallic systems, spaces and rhythms found in an urban landscape. These spaces direct and allow human traffic to flow, The video echoes movement through composure and orchestrated configurations; thus allowing rhythmic formations to reside outside of their tangible context. 'Escalator' encircles notions of repetition; in passage is where the viewer is situated with no entry or exit.