Connecting Lines

Four passengers trace a circular journey connecting Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and back to Seattle again. The action in Connecting Lines takes place in the bar cars of these moving trains, where changing landscapes fill a single moving-picture window, as an eclectic mix of passengers come and go in the foreground. These passengers do the things people on trains usually do: smoke, drink, and tell stories. As characters appear, wander off, and reappear at random, their tales are reinvented and adapted to suit new audiences. All the while, the passing landscape is being shaped into patterns by the train’s steady movement through it.