Theme: Time as Material
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_End_(1966_film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz0r6GrImmE
I immediately thought about a Czechoslovak movie named Happy End, by Oldřich Lipský, when the theme of time is brought up. The movie is a completely reversed in it’s time sequence; but the narration is built on what the screen tells the audience: an affair becomes two people breaking up; death becomes the beginning of life.
It is interesting because regardless how we piece things together, modify the inner time of the narrative; it goes on in the time in the outside world. And according to Tim Maudlin(https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-defense-of-the-reality-of-time-20170516/), time coincides with the rules of the physical world; and since it is an inherent element of any process or anything that relates with expression of idea, we won’t even have the ability of understanding concepts, thus a modification of time does suit the media for humor purpose. It’s funny things can unhappening, and people are relieved from the consequence of their deed.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOxpbOtGE_E)
Method: I take a eating footage of myself, and reverse it, add a narrative based on what I am doing with the food in the final result.
Response: I planned a bit for the footage, choosing the food and sequence of eating in order to show a sense of development in the “producing”; I also tried to behave ceremonially, to better pace the actions so that enough space was left for the commentary.
The sound was added the next day, since I couldn’t find a place quite enough for the recording, and after a round of practice, I made up the whole commentary thing according to the reversed footage.