When we go down into the subway there is always in the back of our minds a series of film clips playing. These are subway scenes from movies we have seen during the course of our lives. This is part of a larger media context, a media collective unconscious of shared experience. For example in the movie Dressed to Kill by Brian Di Palma there is a shot of a long New York subway platform. These platforms have steel I-beam columns. People often lean out and look down the tunnel for the oncoming train. In the Di Palma sequence there is a choreographed scene where people are hidden behind each column. They periodically lean out to look for the train and then retreat back out of view. Indeed there are hundreds of movie subway sequences that we all know in common such as the famous scene in the Seven Year Itch where Marilyn Monroe’s dress is blown up by the air rushing out of a subway grating in the street. Or the special effects Kung Fu sequence from the Matrix or King Kong grabbing an elevated train as it rolls by him. There are many other movie sequences from many different countries that create a rich narrative of subway images. I propose to collect all these scenes into a montage of video for display on various screens in the Berlin Ubahn system. I have named the piece you[bahn]tube because it relates to the idea of a collective moving image experience one can have by researching films on youTube. I have already begun researching these films on youTube and have come up with several clips that fans have uploaded. I have downloaded these sequences and am in the process of assembling the material onto disks. Here is a list of potential movie clips that have subway scenes: Saturday Night Fever, Taxi Driver, Marathon Man, The King of Comedy, The Godfather, North by Northwest, Prizzi's Honor, Rosemary's Baby, West Side Story, Twelve Angry Men, Do the Right Thing, Network, Midnight Cowboy, Annie Hall, Bang the Drum Slowly, When Harry met Sally, The Matrix , Speed, Little Nicky, Jacob's Ladder, Men in Black, Maniac, Adventures in Baby-Sitting, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Lost in Translation, The Rules of Attraction, My Boss's Daughter, Mimic, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Swat, Blade, Ghost, Swimming Pool, The Italian Job, End of Days, Weekend at Bernie's II, Total Recall, Predator II, Flatliners, Jacob's Ladder, Underworld, Resident Evil, Irreversible, American Werewolf In Paris, American Werewolf In London, Carlito's Way, Ocean's Eleven, Risky Business, Along Came A Spider, Conspiracy Theory, Crocodile Dundee, 48 Hrs, Getting Even With Dad, My Best Friends Wedding, On The Line, Serendipity, Silver Streak, Strange Days, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables, Midnight Cowboy, Bless the Child, Paycheck, The Odessa File, Superman, French Connection, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Hunted, The Warriors, Jacobs Ladder, Daredevil, You've Got Mail, Barbershop 2: Back In Business, Luc Besson's Subway, Neverwhere, Suicide Club, Sliding Doors, They, Wings of Desire, Trackman, Pi, Midnight Meat train, Step Up 2, After, Trick, Edmond, taste of Tea,
When we go down into the subway there is always in the back of our minds a series of film clips playing. These are subway scenes from movies we have seen during the course of our lives. This is part of a larger media context, a media collective unconscious of shared experience. For example in the movie Dressed to Kill by Brian Di Palma there is a shot of a long New York subway platform. These platforms have steel I-beam columns. People often lean out and look down the tunnel for the oncoming train. In the Di Palma sequence there is a choreographed scene where people are hidden behind each column. They periodically lean out to look for the train and then retreat back out of view. Indeed there are hundreds of movie subway sequences that we all know in common such as the famous scene in the Seven Year Itch where Marilyn Monroe’s dress is blown up by the air rushing out of a subway grating in the street. Or the special effects Kung Fu sequence from the Matrix or King Kong grabbing an elevated train as it rolls by him. There are many other movie sequences from many different countries that create a rich narrative of subway images. I propose to collect all these scenes into a montage of video for display on various screens in the Berlin Ubahn system. I have named the piece you[bahn]tube because it relates to the idea of a collective moving image experience one can have by researching films on youTube. I have already begun researching these films on youTube and have come up with several clips that fans have uploaded. I have downloaded these sequences and am in the process of assembling the material onto disks. Here is a list of potential movie clips that have subway scenes: Saturday Night Fever, Taxi Driver, Marathon Man, The King of Comedy, The Godfather, North by Northwest, Prizzi's Honor, Rosemary's Baby, West Side Story, Twelve Angry Men, Do the Right Thing, Network, Midnight Cowboy, Annie Hall, Bang the Drum Slowly, When Harry met Sally, The Matrix , Speed, Little Nicky, Jacob's Ladder, Men in Black, Maniac, Adventures in Baby-Sitting, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Lost in Translation, The Rules of Attraction, My Boss's Daughter, Mimic, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Swat, Blade, Ghost, Swimming Pool, The Italian Job, End of Days, Weekend at Bernie's II, Total Recall, Predator II, Flatliners, Jacob's Ladder, Underworld, Resident Evil, Irreversible, American Werewolf In Paris, American Werewolf In London, Carlito's Way, Ocean's Eleven, Risky Business, Along Came A Spider, Conspiracy Theory, Crocodile Dundee, 48 Hrs, Getting Even With Dad, My Best Friends Wedding, On The Line, Serendipity, Silver Streak, Strange Days, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables, Midnight Cowboy, Bless the Child, Paycheck, The Odessa File, Superman, French Connection, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Hunted, The Warriors, Jacobs Ladder, Daredevil, You've Got Mail, Barbershop 2: Back In Business, Luc Besson's Subway, Neverwhere, Suicide Club, Sliding Doors, They, Wings of Desire, Trackman, Pi, Midnight Meat train, Step Up 2, After, Trick, Edmond, taste of Tea,