车站 (1995)

The Singapore Biennale 2008 is showing Beket (Bus Stop,1995), directed by both Abdykalykov and Abdyjaparov. This film is finely composed and paced, with a cynical sense of the comedy of human relationships. Despite a soundtrack of amplified natural sounds, it is essentially a black and white silent film. A small group of people waits at a lonely roadside bus stop on a freezing cold day that overlooks a field or a frozen lake. Beyond that we see the grey shape of what could be a city, or a forest.