Time in the Age of Acceleration (Lav DIAZ)

 

Perception, Stimuli and Narrative: Time in the Age of Acceleration (YouTube) 50'31"
Play-Doc Festival (21 June 2024) SPANISH/ENGLISH

The fact that film playback software offers the possibility of accelerating the speed of projection is not simply a technological matter; a dominant regime of perception is condensed in this innovation for impatient users. Who can concentrate on watching a film without interruption for more than three hours? Diaz’s cinema has always implied a twofold demand: the long, often fixed, shots and the total time of his films poses a perceptual challenge to the viewer: the dense matter of time, that abstract but real condition, is felt due to a laborious poetics of duration. Indeed, the Filipino filmmaker’s cinema of time constitutes a perceptual paradigm of resistance to the age of extreme acceleration. 

Moderated by: Roger Koza