Chronos
an immersive and mesmerizing work
| 10 Feb 2007
Film title:
Chronos
Release date:
27 Feb.
With soundtrack replacing narration, the film attempts to transcend verbal language in its examination of universal themes. Chronos boasts of being the world's 'first non-verbal, non-fiction large format motion picture filmed in time-lapse photography'. With apparently no script, no characters and no plot, this is not a film to follow convention, nor an easy one to credit in words.
Its novel use of continual time-lapse photography is absorbing. In a matter of seconds the viewer is privy to months of activity in a streetscape or landscape. Sadly, some appeal has been lost in translation to the downsized small-screen format, but the film's strangely unreal filmic qualities render the armchair traveller both dazed and awestruck. [Yasmin Ali]
Release Date: 27 Feb.