FILMIC TIME

Time can be manipulated in the same means as space by film. The phenomenon that the film produces is the possibility to involve a viewer in both the present tense (the time spent the theatre) whilst allowing their mind to travel into the past, present and future with potentially little visual contrast.

Michael Arnzen describes this manipulation of time as a fundamental quality of the uncanny,

"it should be noted that the disruption which the uncanny signals (a disruption of time; a fracturing, splitting, or doubling of subjectivity; a deconstructive repetition-with-a-difference) resonates deeply with contemporary philosophers who have moved beyond purely psychoanalytic or aesthetic issues."