I took a return journey on the Isaburo and Shinpei trains in Kyushu that run between Yoshimatsu and Hitoyoshi. It is not only a commuter train but also a tourist train because of its historical past. It was originally constructed in 1903 and named after two of the men who were responsible for train development in Japan. 

These diesel running trains have dark wooden interiors with booth seating by sash windows and round ceiling lights. Each route travels through twenty tunnels with views of rivers and mountains. The way they go up steep gradients is by a switchback system, zig-zagging up and down steep gradients. The conductor would walk from one end of the train to the other end, change the direction of the tracks and reverse the train to continue the journey.

With a Bolex camera, and with one exposure setting only, I ran the film before entering each tunnel, capturing the landscapes before the tunnel; then a sudden change of imagery to reflections of the train interiors when in the tunnel, and then returning to landscape scenery when it exits. I tried to repeat this method on the return journey.

The film was looped, duplicated and then projected as two screens partially superimposed on top of each other within a widescreen. They are not in synch but arranged so that repeated images, interior and exterior shots occur at different times on either of the two screens, thereby inviting incidental interactions with different adjacent shots. 

The film also concerns perception of movement from a moving train between images we see at a distance and images that are closer.