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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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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

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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