Roundtrip

Roundtrip is a threeminute film that documents two train journeys from New York City to Montreal and back again undertaken by Leonard and his partner in the fall of 2014 Through the consistent use of a splitscreen the two journeys can be observed sidebyside unfolding in parallel within the films vertically divided frame The purpose of the trip was to visit the father of Leonards partner in hospital where he was receiving a kidney transplant from his own sister While this background information is not made available to viewers of the film it constitutes the hidden narrative center of the film which is further mirrored in the works formal concern with questions of division and unity