"The project began with discontent with the technique of motion pictures that principally remains unchanged since the birth of cinema. Discrete images are shot and subsequently played one after another at a certain speed so as to trick the eye to perceive the fractured image sequence as a flowing passage of time. The project also began with discontent with the traditional technique of long-exposure. It makes apparent the fact that what is arrested within the frame is always an accretion of space-time. Yet the spatiotemporal flux is forced to a halt by the very rigidness of the prescribed frame.
The project then is a response to the two, one that attempts to offer an alternative methodology in which the spatiotemporal continuum can be represented in a more rigorous manner. An electronic film camera is modified to allow an uninterrupted exposure of an entire strip of 35mm film as the camera automatically rewinds (thus moves) the film across the image plane at a constant speed (for approximately ten seconds). What appears on the film is an undivided *panorama* that evenly spreads time out on the spatial dimension, that articulates time in motion. Further, the unwinding of time here, by exposing the film in reverse, runs counter to the traditional progression of time arranged on the strip of film as indicated by the frame counters. It too echoes the concept of the photographic image as a *post-obituary* recount of a present that has irresistibly fallen into the ruins of the past."
