Daniel Crooks: Phantom Ride

Overview

ACMI's new exhibition will take visitors on a ride through the formative days of film history. Created by Daniel Crooks with the help of the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, Phantom Ride harkens back to the so-called phantom rides of the early 1900s, in which filmmakers attached cameras to the front of a vehicle to replicate the sensation of movement.

In this contemporary take, Crooks has stitched together hours of disparate footage to create the illusion of a single journey. "Phantom Ride comes out of my long held fascination with the convergence of trains, the birth of cinema and modern ideas and representations of time," says the artist, who will also be on hand on the evening of Tuesday, February 23 to present a selection of his short film works on the big screen.