Buses don't stop here anymore

2024/7:28 minutes/experimental

Distributed by: CFMDC

Buses don't stop here anymore is a chronicle on Super 8 of the closure, abandonment, and demolition of the Greyhound bus station in Ottawa, Canada. Once an important site for coming and going, an emotive epicenter, the camera observes the building’s erasure, dismantled by machines that writhe in the dust of demolition. Optical printing translates the act of observation into a requiem for a building, once so present and vital, now a ghost of the past.

Filmed on Ektachrome Super 8 over a three year period from the sudden closure of the Greyhound station in April 2020 to its demolition in 2022, Buses don’t stop here anymore speaks to the profound loss of long-distance bus travel in hundreds of small towns and cities across Canada.

Production format: Super 8, 16mm

Screening format: digital file with stereo sound

Date of creation: October 31, 2024