Layover consists of a single, hour-long
shot of a commercial airliner at port awaiting attention. Around
it activity comes and goes, the sky changes, and still the plane
stands unattended. In this motionless event concepts of duration,
patience, memory, and simple boredom emerge and recede while hovering
nearby is the recurrent (and always unfulfilled) expectation that
there might be an interruption in the state of non-activity. Filmed
two months after September 11 in probable violation of numerous
airport security directives, Layover
obliquely considers issues of safety and monotony, the capability
of technological systems to provide both on a predictable basis,
and the ability of images and technologies to alter the perceptions
of one another.
