Time Being (2009)

Chris Gallaghers featurelength film essay Time Being is an elegant and thoughtprovoking investigation of the nature and experience of time and its filmic representation 88 oneminute shots or shotsequences counterpoint a spoken commentary that probes and questions the subject from many different angles psychological philosophical mechanical cosmological artistic Equally Gallagher combines aspects of different cinemas documentary structural poetic narrative and personal skillfully interweaving all the elements into a complex yet coherent and surprisingly moving statement on the human condition The most brilliant film on its subject Ive ever seen Time Being is cool and nonacademic yet deeply engaged and beautifully shot An educational film in the best sense Tony Reif