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As Time Swallows Time

As Time Swallows Time
As Time Swallows Time
As Time Swallows Time
As Time Swallows Time

Synopsis

AS TIME SWALLOWS TIME weaves fragmented narratives into a poetic dialogue between two entwined inquiries. The first engages with the curatorial focus of BIO28 (Ljubljana Design Biennale), which interrogates the historical symbolism linking women to flowers - figures of fragility, sensuality, and objectification - and the ways these associations have been reclaimed and subverted. The second unfolds as a speculative exploration of time and temporal perception as forces shaping human consciousness and evolution. Together, these threads compose a meditation on transformation, perception, and the cyclical nature of existence. Constructed through the juxtaposition of narrative fragments, the film layers scenes in a manner that invites viewers to navigate and reassemble its temporal and conceptual terrain.
The film presents a dialogue between the Ljubljana Biennale’s curatorial theme, “Do You Speak Flower?” which explores the historical contexts in which women have been symbolically linked to flowers—figures of fragility, sensuality, and objectification—and how those associations have been reclaimed and subverted, and this theme directly, and the authors speculative exploration of time, temporal perception and post humanity.
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Details

Year
2025
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
47 min 10 sec
Format
digital
Director
Rosario Hurtado, Roberto Feo, Stuart Bannocks 1st Feature
Producer
El Ultimo Grito
Executive Producer
El Ultimo Grito
Editor
Stuart Bannocks
Screenwriter
Rosario Hurtado, Roberto Feo
Director of Photography
Stuart Bannocks
Production Designer
POI
Composer
Alex Brettel
Principal cast
Zoë Frost, Kate Handford, Paula Rodriguez, James Carrigan

Genre

Docufiction Experimental

Categories

Fiction Documentary Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by British Council, Center for Creativity (CZK) Slovenia European Union and the Republic of Slovenia, MAO Museum of Architecture Ljubljana, Goldsmiths, University of London, HEAD Geneve (Haute Ecole D'Art et de Design)

A co-production with Biennale of Design Ljubljana (bio28)

El Ultimo Grito

Rosario Hurtado

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