TIME STREAMS

by Stephanie MAXWELL

2003 / Beta SP / coul / son / 5' 30

Watch an extract the online video
This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2009 digitization plan. An excerpt is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

The spiral - like structure and unbroken momentum of the film/mussical composition are somewhat suggestive to the artists of intersecting streams (or 'ribbons') of time. The concept is not simply the familiar (although perhaps illusory) forward, linear 'march' of clock time, but rather a nexus in which backwards time (e.g. , dreams, recollections together of segments of time are equally prominent.

The visuals are animations and manipulations of hand-painted 35mm motion picture film, small objects, copier art, and liquid mixtures that are extensively interwoven and layered in digital post production.

The principal sound sources of the music are generic samples (digitized recordings of instrumental and vocal tones and of environmental sounds such as ice cubes and ping pong balls). However, in resynthesis the spectral structures (tones colors) of these sounds often have benne retooled and their attack and decay articulations have been altered.

Time Streams is a collaborative work, from concept through realization.

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	Beta SP 1 reel
speed	25 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	son
rental fee	21,00 €