Routemaster

Routemaster is a montage of rhythmically organised repetitions and involves an abstraction of motion that increases in frequency and scale The basic framework of the film is provided by intercutting of two counterposed materials On the one hand it uses blackandwhite endlessly accelerating and rhythmically varying images of the inexorable forward motion of the racing cars On the other hand it uses colourful extreme slowmotion images of details of a chequered flag fluttering in the wind The escalating speed growing abstraction and mosaiclike repetition of images leads on to manipulated yet realistic images of human bodies used in crash tests In the end all that is left is the blackandwhite flash of speed the gyrating pulse of the mosaic the details of the human bodies and the intense soundtrack Routemaster has some of the qualities of a live concert