TIME, 3min., Greece
Directed by Christos Karakasis
An experimental movie depicting the passage of time over the city of Athens. It does not follow the usual cinematic narrative but focuses on the visual dimension of the moving image. The creator, hidden behind four shooting angles, designs a live painting and plays with four shots that test the composition, opening and duration of a panorama. The duration of this panorama (the continuous movement of the camera from point A to point B) combined with Time Lapse creates the feeling of a prolonged time. According to the director this is a comment on time. Time is "the undefined movement of the existence and the events of the past, present and future, considered as a whole". According to ancient Greek mythology, time has wings on its back and never stops moving. Time was associated with Saturn, the Titan, who was the son of Uranus (sky) and Gaia (earth), representing the chaotic freedom of a primitive world opposed to Zeus’ order. "But what was of particular concern to ancient Greek poets, philosophers and historians was the problem of seeking the beginning of everything.

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Director Statement
There is general agreement among philosophers that time is continuous (i.e. we do not experience it as stopping and starting, or darting about at random), and that it has an intrinsic direction or order (i.e. we all agree that events progress from past to present to future). There is also a more or less general agreement that is it objective, and not subjective or dependent on its being consciously experienced, which is borne out by the almost universal agreement on the time order of so many events, both psychological and physical, and the fact that so many different physical processes bear consistent time relations to each other (e.g. the rotation of the Earth, the frequency of oscillation of a pendulum, etc). However, even given that, many differing opinions and approaches to what time actually is have been put forward over the centuries.