Trains

I wish I could write an extensive review but this was so emotionally intense that I lost my train of thoughts, or was it my thought on Trains?

Marein

Mesmerizing.  Absolutely top notch use of archival footage and narrative sound design. Through the perspective of the titular Trains, this archival compilation film gives you insight into the inventive and horrifying capacity of humans and technology, and the society we…

Bonka

How patronage progressed from passenger to payload to prisoner. This is not the destination that was promised; industrial revolution heralding the great tragedy of Europe.

Jack Russo

One moment you're watching a couple share a quiet compartment, the next you're inside a boxcar bound for a camp, and the edit doesn't apologize for it. It shouldn't. History’s most horrific acts were logistical successes. We industrialized death with timetables.

M.M

You sense that it’s coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier when Drygas cuts from the couple in the compartment to the inside of the boxcar that’s destined for the camps. Railway as manifestation of historical progress and silent witness to horrors that attend it — as a…

Isaac Feldberg

Just an insane collection and use of archival footage; of images that may never have been meant to be seen, let alone move audiences. A record of human history’s advancements and downfalls. Effortlessly profound and full of premonitions, a warning from history of things…

Afra Nariman

can't wait for Planes and Automobiles

Ingeborg W

You know it’s going to be depressing when it starts out with a Kafka quote

Janne

5 minutes into the film my mum whispers to me “wow so many trains”

Ivan Maxwell