Florentijn de Boer

Phantomride

Description

Limited publication 'Phantomride', containing early stage sketches and drawings by artist and painter Florentijn de Boer. Nearly 300 riso-printed pages of beautifully layered drawings. The order, size and combinations of the sketches are random, turning the book into an (art)object itself, instead of just another catalogue. By using Riso as the printing technique, we've increased the feeling of the publication being a sketchbook.

Text by: Christian Hayes
Early cinema held an instant fascination with the train, as is evident from the numerous actualities of engines entering and leaving stations, including the famous Lumière brothers film L'Arrivée d'un Train (1896). In the train, cinema found a technology to rival its own wonders, and early train films are often records of one modern technology marvelling at the other. It was a relationship that in a way began decades earlier; through the train carriage window, passengers were offered a cinematic experience years before the emergence of cinema itself. With the 'phantom ride', these two technologies were fused together to produce an all-new cinema spectacle.

Phantom rides were films shot from the very front of moving trains. The films would present the journey from the train's perspective, capturing the approaching track, surrounding landscape and the passage through tunnels. To obtain these films, cameramen would literally tie themselves and their cameras to the buffer of a speeding train. From this position, the film would appear to be moving by aid of an invisible force, hence the name 'phantom ride' by which they soon came to be known. The first phantom ride, The Haverstraw Tunnel, was made in America in 1897.

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Details

Printed by: Drukkerij Oproer
Design: Studio Lennarts & de Bruijn
Cover: White toner
Print technique: Riso
Dimensions: 210 × 297
Pages: 288
Edition: 100

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