Arquivo

Follows the same concept as The Trumpet. This time, eight film makers present their personal impressions on the significance of time. The series is a kind of road movie, unique in the history of cinema, offering new possibilities to understand the individual contribution by each director. Histoire d?eaux, by Bernardo Bertolucci is based on a Hindu parable that renders the notion of time relative. In About Time 2, Mike Figgis reflects on the discontinuity of memory, showing two moments simultaneously in the past, present, and future. In One Moment, Jiri Menzel observes the life of a famous actress through scenes from the films she worked in. In Ten Minutes After, by István Szábo, a woman is preparing a birthday party and, ten minutes later, is accused of attempted murder. Vers Nancy, by Claire Denis, shows a conversation between a philosopher and his student during a train journey. Volker Schlöndorff observes an old man, a boy, and a pregnant woman to reflect on fleeting time in The Enlightenment. Addicted to the Stars, by Michael Radford, presents an astronaut returning from a journey of eighty light years. His body, however, has only aged ten minutes. Jean-Luc Godard studies time in ten small films of one minute each in Dans le Noir du Temps.