Superliminal

Superliminal (UK/2012)

Directed by: Sebastián Melo

“Superliminal” (2011) is completely built upon photographs. We dive into a visual and aural journey through the London Underground questioning the possibility of representing time through stillness. As Chris Marker commented ‘A moment stopped would burn like a frame of film blocked before the furnace of the projector.’ In such a way, every frame in “Superliminal” originates as a long exposure photograph, thus accumulating traces, gestures and identities in simultaneous temporalities that otherwise remain invisible, challenging in the process the idea of an observational documentary.