95 Moments on a Train mobilizes video footage I shot while riding an Amtrak train to Los Angeles for my last semester of film school in 1993. At the time I had intended to create a non-narrative short film using the footage and an original music score I wrote to go with it, but I never completed the project. Revisiting the material and my contemporaneous journal entries 32 years later, now a parent of two children not much older than I was then, I began to see the piece as a way to explore the heady emotions of young adulthood, alternating between bravado and insecurity, and devised a mode where randomized fragments of my journals are overlaid on the footage to evoke my emotions at the time. Users are also able to experience the film with their own text, or with no text at all, applying a variety of split-screen layouts and visual effects to make the experience their own in any number of ways.
