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Commute

2025 · 9 min

A hypnotic, rhythmic rush of passing tracks and shifting music that turns a daily routine into playful visual music.

Directed by
Henry Hills
Overview
Henry Hills’ most recent film consists of footage recorded from a moving train during his trips from his home in Vienna to his work as a professor at FAMU in Prague. Over ten years of commutes are condensed in dozens of shots of railway tracks, each set to diferent pieces of music ranging from Eduard Artemyev to Kraftwerk. In line with Hills’ decades-spanning investigations of rhythm in film, the mundane Vienna-Prague line is transformed through rapid montage into a musical reverie of geometries in motion; a joyous, personal rif on that cinematic motif par excellence: the train.

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Tone
    Pacing
    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • art
    • music
    • work
    • memory
    Places
    • road trip
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    • animated
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism6
    Romance0
    Tension1
    Darkness0
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight2

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    Directed by
    Henry Hills
    Runtime
    9 min
    Languages
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