“Take some time, take some more, time is passing, the time of your
life, the earth rotates, seasons come and go, the machine sorts zeros
from ones, as another thousand tiny bursts of phosphorescent light
dance to the rhythm of the wind and the tide.”
- Chris Welsby
It
seems as if time is increasingly out of joint. We no longer
experience time as a succession or an acceleration of events, but
rather as being adrift in a fragmented world of informationstimuli,
out of the realm of chronology
and
linearity. What is the impact of this evolution on our perception
patterns? How do the different internal, natural, social and
technological rhythms relate to each other and infuence our daily
sensory perception? What is the role and potential of cinema,
together with music, the art form most particularly devoted to the
shaping force of time? These and other questions will be explored
through a series of contemporary and historic film and video works
addressing the relation between space, movement, technology and (our
experience of) time.
