Cristina Pavesi:

Time

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What about the duration of Time? There obviously is an objective Time measurable by conventional units such as minutes, hours, days, months, years....but there is also a subjective Time where boredom of endless long moments clashes with the hurry and worry that Time may not be enough.The passing of Time is so left to any free interpretation.

In the video “59 seconds” I use the objective one minute unit of Time but try to let the viewer feel the subjectivity descripted above, so that some seconds seem to pass faster than others which are extremely delayed; actually, at the end an exact minute has past.

In “Night and Day” nocturnal Time, even if set in fixed images, tends to cathch the passing of time through streams of lights and the superimposing of pictures,; on the contrary day Time passes through images in motion together with the movement of travelling.

The entire life cycle of a plant or a bunch of flowers may be set in a few seconds  where fixed images, patiently caught day by day, are put together giving the idea of a sort of synthesis of Time expansion. ( “Flowers Trilogy”)

In “Bells” Time plays as children do, slowing or accellerating, where the bell sound is a sort of  sonour  deformed background underlining rythm and nonsense.

Time may also be considered in a wider sense, it characterizes us as human beings, is part of our DNA, we inherit a subjective  way of perceiving,  considering and interpreting it.