Video analysis

Reading Nature by Chris Hewitt (Dstrukt)

This movie is a series of movie trailer type headings and fluid motion with the sound of soft explosions in the distance. The text flickers in and out and discusses concepts of time. The fluid expanding and flowing all around the text appears to be measured with lines and angles and formulas. The movement of the fluids in the movie mirrored the flow of time; slowly moving and changing shape with some bursts that seemed to go so much faster than others. The natural motions and shapes in the movie are in stark contrast to the artificial flickering and contrived shapes of the text and the explosion noises in the background. This gives the idea of time a much more eerie quality.

Time, while natural as it always has been there, is also a human convention as we measure and qualify it in our lives and cultures. We have formulas and devices that break time apart and bend it to our will. Time is one of the last truly natural aspects of the world. There is no way of stopping or rearranging time in life. The one way we can really stop and modify time is through video. I think this video does a good job of showing this idea.