Big Time Rush is inspired by

the fascination for airplanes

and the live timing-device of

an airport for people living in

its direct proximity. The film

highlights the user groups of

an airport outside its fences

and standardised travel

sequences in the process

of flying. Planespotters,

residents, lovers, animals. The

parallel life outside the airport

walls functions as precise and

attentive to flight schedules

and its routines as inside the

terminals. In their habitus 

of control and participation,

these users form the space

with their rituals and create a

feeling of belonging. This film

has stripped the plane journey,

from Heathrow to Tegel

and back again, of human

inhabitants. What remains is

a haunted nowhere, reached

and observed only by the

inanimate. Before you can see

the airplane you can long hear

the roar of its engines.