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Original Film Title: Airports in the 90’s
Director’s Name: Laura Morell
Writer’s Name: Laura Morell
Producer: Laura Morell
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 24 minutes 51 seconds
Film Description:
“Airports in the 90’s” is a collage film composed entirely of scenes from over 100 Hollywood films set in airports or airplanes during the 1990s. Blending moments of tension, intimacy, absurdity, and quiet routine, the film constructs a single, fictional day at an unnamed airport—an ephemeral space where strangers intersect, journeys begin, and stories are suspended mid-air.
In the spirit of Christian Marclay’s “The Clock” and Guy Maddin’s “The Green Fog”, this film operates in the realm of archival remix and cinematic reconstruction. “Airports in the 90’s” invites viewers to reflect on the cinematic language of a pre-9/11 era of travel, where every terminal was a stage and every departure gate a site of drama.