Time Manipulated: 2 min 37 sec, format [16:9], colour, produced in 2008, my role: Writer and Director.
This was a short film exploring the concept of ‘Time’.
Here’s a synopsis:
The scene begins with a man being trapped in a room he can’t escape and this provides a metaphor for us as humans being trapped in a world where media is all around and we can’t escape it. We’ve accepted media as a huge part of our lives, mediated images are all we know and they construct our world, as we know it.
Another parallel apart from the time lapses and time jumps could relate to Latch’s possible death prediction in the newspaper. Could this man be getting tomorrow’s newspaper today? This is linked to the position of news in today’s world, where information travels so fast and it may get put out of context, ironically turning ‘news’ into its paradox of being mere rumours.
The manipulation of the Space/Time continuum is unfathomable by the human mind, (especially if one tries to think through and comprehend every aspect of time travel and manipulation; mainly because it seemingly isn’t physically possible, much like M. C. Escher’s creations.
M. C. Escher’s paintings were typically done on old media (Art canvases with paint), but have now been cracked and explained with the integration of new media (Digital re-creations; animation of the ‘impossible cube’ being constructed.) This concept links to the ideas brought about by Jenkins in his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
Hence, our project is itself a piece of media which greatly demands the audience’ attention and interaction, as it persuades the audience to come up with their own interpretation and conclusion about what message is being conveyed across.
The above-mentioned points resonate the same ideals that Jenkins proposes in his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. These ideals being that:
This was a short film exploring the concept of ‘Time’.
Here’s a synopsis:
The scene begins with a man being trapped in a room he can’t escape and this provides a metaphor for us as humans being trapped in a world where media is all around and we can’t escape it. We’ve accepted media as a huge part of our lives, mediated images are all we know and they construct our world, as we know it.
Another parallel apart from the time lapses and time jumps could relate to Latch’s possible death prediction in the newspaper. Could this man be getting tomorrow’s newspaper today? This is linked to the position of news in today’s world, where information travels so fast and it may get put out of context, ironically turning ‘news’ into its paradox of being mere rumours.
The manipulation of the Space/Time continuum is unfathomable by the human mind, (especially if one tries to think through and comprehend every aspect of time travel and manipulation; mainly because it seemingly isn’t physically possible, much like M. C. Escher’s creations.
M. C. Escher’s paintings were typically done on old media (Art canvases with paint), but have now been cracked and explained with the integration of new media (Digital re-creations; animation of the ‘impossible cube’ being constructed.) This concept links to the ideas brought about by Jenkins in his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
Hence, our project is itself a piece of media which greatly demands the audience’ attention and interaction, as it persuades the audience to come up with their own interpretation and conclusion about what message is being conveyed across.
The above-mentioned points resonate the same ideals that Jenkins proposes in his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. These ideals being that:
