Elegy For The Ghost Rider

A lyrical elegy for a community and the lives lost during the Covid pandemic. Drawing upon themes on the fragility of life with the ephemeralness of celluloid, the film is told as a textured visual haiku centered on the iconic #7 subway train in New York City.
It is a handmade portrait on healing through time, bathed with shadow, light-scapes, silhouettes and locomotion.
Celluloid and subway tracks merge through emotional color abstractions for which “hungry ghosts” find transcendence.
Recorded sound vibrations and pinhole cinematography capture a time & place forever etched in our history.

Composed by sound artist, Mike Vernusky, the film is a cinematic poem on presence in absence and transcendence.