CPS Week 8 - Time

In response to the week’s theme of Time, I created a short animation of a man aging backwards, to show time being reversed.

By making this animation I wanted to explore the reverse narrative style that works backward through time, showing the effect before the cause, and the end at the beginning. This creates an unusual experience that can be disorienting because it is not a person’s "normal" experience of time. I think it is an interesting way of making time the central character in a narrative, as everything can become dependent on the question "when?"

Similar work can be seen in Coldplay's music video of "The Scientist" in which a scene plays backwards while someone sings normally. This is done by filming the video chronologically and then reversing it.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A) 

Similar work has been created by Christopher Nolan in the film Memento, which is about a man suffering from anterograde amnesia and is unable to form new memories. The film unfolds in the protagonist's perspective in reverse chronological order, leaving the audience as ignorant of the events that occurred prior to each scene as the protagonist is.