Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time

This film uses a variety of multiple-screen formats to create an intriguing series of visual riddles. The film consists of a series of simple camera movements that are rendered “diachronically” – several different aspects of the action are presented on the screen at once. By playing with time delays between these images, new kinds of space, action, gesture and temporality have been found. Generated from structural principles, the film is both lyrical and sensual and provokes a new understanding of time and cinema. “…a sensual piece of visual music… staggered imagery in everflowing Godardian movements, enhanced by sumptuous colour and by delayed actions of concentrated rhythmic power.” – Amos Vogel, WHYY-TV “When Rose fills the screen with twenty-five images, the experience is akin to music. An image ripples across the screen as a theme echoes across the different instruments of a full orchestra, giving way to complicated designs, each image an arabesque in a Persian rug.” – Noel Carroll, Soho Weekly News Collections: Donnell Film Library; Australian National Film Library; Northwestern University.