WHAT IS TIME BENDING IN FILM? (In the Entertainment industry.)

Bending Time / Photo Credit: Adiyogi

WHAT IS TIME BENDING IN FILM? (In the Entertainment industry.)  

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What is Time Bending in Film?

Time Bending in Film

Time travel provides another way to shape reality and play "what if" games with society. Technologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world in film. Postmodernist film classification for works that articulate the themes and ideas of postmodernism through the medium of cinema. Hyperreality, in semiotics and postmodernism, is an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies.

Time Bending in Movies

Einstein proved that time is relative. But it’s movie-makers like Conor McDonnell who allow us to see the malleability of the fourth dimension. In “100 Second Week” McDonnnell reduces a journey spanning 168 hours to 100 seconds.

Time bending movies are stories that deliberately target the audience’s brain as their plaything, either by making us work through their abstract mysteries, or by pulling the rug from underneath the audience in its final moments, or taking us on a spiraling dream-like journey like no other film could.

Time bending in movies can be done in several ways. You can vary the frame rate to create slow motion, speeded up motion, and time-lapse cinematography. In “100 Second Week” McDonald using editing to achieve time compression. He simply creates short clips–essential moments captured at normal film rates–which he splices together.

This kind of time compression isn’t limited to movies. In the 1960s, sound artist Tony Schwartz created “Nancy Grows Up,” a 2-minute audio production that captured the growth of his niece over a period of 13 years.

Time compression doesn’t have to remain in the domain of professional filmmakers. It’s a technique that can allow even novices to produce all sorts of memorable videos ranging from travelogues (e.g., “My Hike Up Kilimanjaro in 60 Seconds”) to instructional pieces (“How to Paint a Garage Door in Two Minutes”) to sports photography (e.g., presenting all the key plays of a football game in half a minute).

Examples:

• Altered States (1980)
• Triangle (2009)
• Predestination (2015)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Abre los Ojos (1997)
• Identity (2003)
• Mind Game (2004)
• Primer (2004)
• Cube (1997)
• Gozu (2003)
• Enemy (2013)
• Enter the Void (2009)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• Videodrome (1983)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Stalker (1979)
• Pi (1998)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Holy Mountain (1973)
• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
• Persona (1966)
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Brazil (1985)
• The Prestige (2006)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990) 

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Bending Time / Photo Credit: Adiyogi