Station to Station

It’s hard to define exactly whatStation to Station is but perhaps easier to work out what it is not. It’s not a music documentary, as its programming in the Sounds on Screen section of the Sydney Film Festival would suggest. It’s not a series of short films, despite being divided up into 62 one-minute vignettes. It’s not an examination of the role trains play in our lives, or really any salient statement on traversing America by rail. Doug Aitken’s film, then, is something other than atypica...