Synopsis
Ferroequinology, literally meaning the study of iron horses, is a documentary about railroad photography. Two artists enthralled by locomotion set out on journeys across America. Andrew Cross chases freight trains through the Black Rock desert in Nevada in pursuit of a perfect landscape image. McNair Evans travels on an Amtrak train from San Francisco to Portland, sharing stories and making portraits with fellow passengers. Desolate carriages take on an otherworldly presence and time loses its grasp in this study of photographers in motion, capturing slow travel in today’s increasingly fast-paced society.
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News
Vague Visages “The Ontology of Ferroequinology”
Film International “Nostalgia Rides the Rails: Alex Nevill’s Ferroequinology”
Daily Utah Chronicle “Ferroequinology Reimagines the Locomotive Chase”
High on Films “Ferroequinology Slamdance 2022 Review”
Film Threat “Ferroequinology Slamdance 2022 Review”
Unseen Films “Ferroequinology Slamdance 2022 Review”
Review STL “Movie Review Ferroequinology Slamdance 2022”
Film School Radio “Interview with Director Alex Nevill”
Screen Fish “Slamdance 2022 Documentary Reviews”
Unseen Films “Slamdance 2022 Curtain Raiser”
Vimooz “Documentary on Railroad Photography to Premiere at Slamdance”
Variety “Slamdance Announces Film Lineup for 2022 Hybrid Festival”
Screen International “Hybrid Slamdance 2022 Unveils Line-Up”
Moviemaker “Slamdance Unveils Anti-Algorithm Line-Up”
Disappointment Media “Slamdance 2022: Cinematic Cerebrations”
Screenings
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12 June 2023 (Corsham, UK)
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4 November 2022 (Stirling, UK)
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23 October 2022 (Lowestoft, UK)
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14 October 2022 (Coventry, UK)
https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/MUp-ferroequinology-recorded-qa-cert-tbc/
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26 September 2022 (Lewes, UK)
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11 June 2022 (Los Angeles, USA)
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12 March 2022 (New Plymouth, New Zealand)
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10 March 2022 (London, UK)
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27 January 2022 (Utah, USA)
The cinema finds an apt metaphor in the train, in its framed, moving image, its construction of a journey as an optical experience, the radical juxtaposition of difference places, the “annihilation of space and time”.
Lynne Kirby (1997)
Contact
For all enquiries, please contact: alex[at]alexnevill.com
A press pack with more details about the film can be downloaded here.