Time

Mark Soosaar / Estonia / 1983 / Czech Premiere / 11 min.

synopsis

The gap between the human microcosm and the macro view of universal time is depicted in an associative montage using rhythm and tempo as a significant element. Against a backdrop of ebbing and flowing in nature, a human anthill frantically teems, pulsing with the cycles of waking and sleeping, birth and death, sunrise and sunset.

biography

Estonian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Mark Soosaar (1946) focuses on the relationship between film, anthropology, and historical and subjective time. In ten documentaries, he captures, for example, time-lapse images of the residents of the island of Kihnu, from which he comes.