Zones of Immersion: Stuart Reid

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Zones of Immersion: Stuart Reid
a film by Boja Vasic

Zones of Immersion is a captivating view into the world of artist Stuart Reid during the production of his monumental 500-foot glass wall for Toronto’s Union Station. Reid is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, stained glass, poetry and architecture. His poetic writing is layered into and across this massive, heartfelt artwork – a paean to the 65 million passengers – around 200,000 each day – who pass through Union Station, Toronto’s main public transportation hub.

This film documents the artist’s existential dive into the ‘transit’ experience – people, faces, gestures, postures, activities, the blur of passing trains. The daily ritual of commuting, of coming and going, inhabits a space of suspension between worlds. Observing this intersection between public and private worlds, the artist offers us a wealth of contemplative, emotive, sensory experiences and thoughts that open up our consciousness of self and other.

slicing through the clay of the earth’s first skin
steel, rail and electric lines
going from going to
slicing through time and distance
darkness and light
station by station
releasing us into the city’s fabric
stop by stop
after a days labour

taking us home

- stuart reid

cinematography/editing BOJA VASIC

producer DOREEN BALABANOFF

starring STUART REID

music composer NOAH REID

music production NOAH REID & JACOB KADAR-PENNER

sound editor KELLY MITCHELL

additional camera MATT BEECROFT, THEO SKUDRA,

photographers: TONI HAFKENSCHEID, THEA REID

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