'Face No Dial of a Clock – a cross-temporal fugue' is an exploration of the perception of asynchronous simultaneities. Present life situations are investigated, which require the individuals concerned to find a way of dealing with different time regimes.
The narrator of the film essay inquires into various places in transition. She follows a construction project of a care center for dementia patients, which plans to build a 'village' that would convey normality to the residents. She visits a family over several years whose boy is struggling with the school enrolement. And she tells of a chance encounter with a doctoral candidate who is researching on Maya Deren's film project on Haitian voodoo rituals in the 1940s.
What at first seems like a jumble of disjointed observations and developments, over time forms a stream of thought made of images, sounds, and voices. From the various strands emerge questions about specific personal times that diverge from the demands of performance-oriented society and they show how these are lived.
The film essay is part of the PhD project of the same name Face No Dial of a Clock, developed in the framework of the PhD cooperation between the Kunstuniversity Linz and the Zurich University of the Arts.
'Face No Dial of a Clock – a cross-temporal fugue' is an exploration of temporal discrepancies in the everyday lives of different people and the individual ways of dealing with them. The narrator investigates subjective perceptions of time in different places. For example, that of a child or people suffering from dementia. In the process, she accidentally encounters a doctoral candidate who is on the trail of Maya Deren's film project on Haitian voodoo rituals in the 1940s. From the various strands emerge questions about specific personal times that diverge from the demands of performance-oriented society.