Luas Carol

Luas Carol is a part of Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly's City Loops project, a series of videos and interactive installations that observe the changing face of South Dublin County, and is part of the 'InContext Residency'.

Luas means speed, and here the accelerations and decelerations of the streetcar give the key to the treatment of the image and of the sound.
We use the Luas Red Line, with its evocative names, Fatima, Red Cow, Black Horse.., to shoot a series of dolly shots which are transformed into a play of images sliding over and into each other, and passing from reality to fantasy, from day to night, from winter to summer, from Connolly to Tallaght.

Luas Carol is  an experimental environment constructed with images and sounds that pass from the concrete to the lyrical, placing the spectator in that tube hurtling through the real world, then allowing him to escape through speed.

Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly, 2007