A beige sedan. An aqueduct. A newspaper stand. Telephone wires. Station announcements. Snippets of conversation. All captured on January 7, 1993 by a college student riding the Amtrak San Joaquins through Central California with his VHS-C camcorder, on the way back to his last semester at school in Los Angeles. 

95 Moments on a Train assembles every moment of the footage and combines it with a propulsive FM synth score written at the time, for a short film that was never made until now. The result is a time capsule of the 1990s, a collision of grungy video and camera work with modern devices and split screen — plus the ability to remix the film yourself in endless ways. 

Choose the shots and layouts, the frame rates, colors, and effects, and use your own music as the soundtrack. Add your own poetic or meditative text and slap it on top of the footage with masking tape. Or just set the sleep timer and let the sounds of the rails coax you to a nap.

95 Moments on a Train is out now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

Includes media by pikisuperstar (Freepik) and nicolasdrweski (Freesound)