Heartbeats Across Tracks


Lorraine Hermenegildo
Heartbeats Across Tracks, 2024
Video with sound
2 minutes 13 seconds

Heartbeats Across Tracks explores the relationship between public transportation and romance in film and television. Visuals and sound from films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) overlap with original video of empty train cars, platforms, and tracks. Scenes and soundtracks bleed into one another, recur, and appear and disappear in a flash, as a flashback or memory might. The constantly shifting technique mirrors the complex, layered, and unstable experience of love, longing, and human connection.

---Cindy Jiang---