Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (Jul 2022)

The Petrified Object and the Poetics of Time in Cinema

  • Farshad Zahedi,
  • Francisco Jiménez Alcarria

DOI
https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2022.10923
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 2

Abstract

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This audiovisual essay addresses the poetics of time in cinema through depictions of objects that are markers of certain temporal densities. By exploring three films the essay offers a view to the petrified objects as the symptoms of the filmmaker’s obsessions with time. In the films cited here, time is a matter of concern as a historical process, as construction within the physical laws, and ultimately, as a psychological perception.

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