By Anand Subhash Borse

Note from the Director

Anand Subhash Borse

Train to Soul Junction is an invitation to slow down and ponder over things that pass by unnoticed. What are we looking for? Is there anything to look for out there in the world? Are the desires we so vehemently chase even our own desires? Or are our dreams and desires being sold to us? Who are we? Where have we come from? Where are we heading? What do we do? Life is between the moments we think we live for. The beauty of life lies in things we do not actually worry about. The beauty of life lies in things we don’t dream of. It is in the things that are around us…we just need to open our eyes and see…the answers are already around us!

Biography

Anand Subhash Borse is an independent researcher based in London. He believes that life is beautiful, and entrusts in the medium of cinema to poignantly capture such a mantra. Led by a deep spiritual curiosity, Anand views film as a window into an inner dimension. This passion drives his ongoing research, exploring cinema not just as entertainment but as a means for meaningful personal reflection and profound spiritual connection.

Note from the Producer

April Wei-West

Surrounded by the constant spell of dizzyingly absurd noise, how do we attain some spiritual reprise? We are so heavy-burdened with the deterriotorialising forces capitalist desire that any sense of peace – personally and communally – seems out of reach. It is a state of neoliberal paralysis that has fogged up that machine of very cognition, of creativity, of legitimately engaging with the world. Should we not be able to slow this rushing of the train that is pummelling towards some doomed fate, we can at least guide the train to pause at the “soul junction.” In this film, slow cinema is employed to open up this possibility. Slowness as a solution offered to excess of speed is not an indication of regression, but rather the curation of space for meaningful contemplation found within the very rush of exacting over stimuli embedded in the post-digital everyday. Slow cinema decisively plays with attention and boredom as a means for meditation, stimulating clarity of mind–body constitution. It encourages a base level of physical wellbeing that can be a foundation for an ethics of care to be extended into critical questioning of power and desire configured in our contemporary political economies.