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Short films
How to use time flexibly
Short film, Heidelberg, Germany 2010

Realisation: Eckhard Kruse

Length: 2 versions: 30 sec. / 60 sec.

Format: HD (AVCHD)

Premiere: Art by Chance, screenings in 20 countries and more than 100 cities around the world, May 7 - June 4, 2010

Content:

The film shows new ways how to deal with time more flexibly.

Awards:
  • 2nd Jury Award One-Minutes: GiGUK - Giessen Videoart Festival 2010
  • Winner 'video performance': theoneminutes 2010, Amsterdam
    Jury report: This one minute is a splendid piece of image engineering, its content is communicative and layered, the marvelous visuals refer to the original context of film: the vaudeville. This one minute plays with the concept of time and the final message is easy to understand though very true.
    Let us all be more flexible!
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Background:

The film combines simple statements/recommendations with a flexible clock in the literal sense. The visual effect is accomplished by a so-called time warp effect, which also from a technical perspective uses time flexibly: The resulting video is generated from the recorded video by mixing original frames from different points in time, according to their position on the screen.