Newton’s Archives of Time
or 100 Moments to Explain Time
video project in progress
“How long is the moment? The moment is like the twinkling of the eye.“ (Talmud)
Newton’s Archives are a store of still lives: scenes, observations of details, experiments with the direction, the duration and the speed of time.
Video is the time machine which enables Newton to investigate the experience of time through different aspects: subjective duration, objective length, acceleration, retardation.
Static states and courses of events are exclusively filmed with a stationary camera setting. The scenes are picked from everyday life and show symbolic arrangements, conditions of work or observations of animals. They refer to motives and contents of painting - the „memento mori“ of a still life, the moving silence of a landscape, the noisy motion of work. However, whereas painting represents eternity, video is a fast aging medium. DVDs and hard discs will have become useless within a few years.
There is a big and permanently growing collection of sequences representing time.
The project is sponsored by the „Migros Kulturprozent“
