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Screenings 1: As Time Goes By
Friday, October 16 2009 / 13:00 Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Hall 1 “There is in the world a great and yet ordinary secret. All of us are part of it, everyone is aware of it, but very few ever think of it. Most of us just accept it and never wonder over it. This secret is time.’’ – Michael Ende In his book The Psychology of Time French psychologist Paul Fraisse claims that we are only aware of time when it appears distorted. We have no experience of time as such, according to Fraisse, only of specific sequences and rhythms. It is not time itself but what goes on in time that produces temporal effects. In this sense, Cinema – the sculpting of time – is the medium best fit to penetrate its mysteries. The films and videos in this programme use the plasticity of the moving image and the inherent dialectics between the continuous and the instantaneous in order to explore the tensions between the time of watching, the image’s own time and the existential dimension of time.  Gary Beydler (USA, 1976,16mm, 11:00 min, mute) (works) “I wanted to make a film that was exactly one year in the making. I love the ocean, and I decided to shoot on the Venice Pier, ...  Michael Snow (Canada, 1990, 16mm, 18:00 min) (works) A simple plot: Michael Snow as a “Walking Man”, leaving his office in extreme slow motion. In a single panning shot thirty seconds of real-time action are distended ...  Guy Sherwin (United Kingdom, 1975-1988, 16mm, 9:00 min, mute) (works) It is quite impossible to offer a definitive description of Guy Sherwin’s Short Film Series, since it has no beginning, middle or end. Composed of a series of ...  William Raban (United Kingdom, 1972, 16mm, 4:00 min) (works) “Originally, this was a four-minute time-lapse film which was shot continuously over a twenty-four hour period. The camera was positioned on a busy pathway in Regent’s Park, and ...  Rose Lowder (France, 1994-95, 16mm, 11:00 min, mute) (works) Bouquets 1-10 is Lowder’s first collection in an ongoing series of one minute episodes, each composed of footage shot around a general geographic location that has been alternately ...  Joost Rekveld (The Netherlands, 1994, 16mm, 4:00 min, mute) (works) “#3 is a film with pure light, in which the images were created by recording the movements of a tiny light-source with extremely long exposures, so that ...  Morten Skallerud (Norway, 1991, 35mm, 12:00 min) (works) A portrait of a deserted fishing village in Northern Norway and a journey through time and space: the four seasons unfold in a continuous camera movement through ...  Kurt Kren (Austria, 1975, 16mm, 9:00 min, mute) (works) Recorded over the space of 21 days by selectively masking and exposing the same three rolls of film, the transformations of a landscape are simultaneously recorded in ... |
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