Barbara Hammer (American 1939)

Bent Time 16mm, color 1983

-Version of Maya Deren’s approach to time and space

-Simulated by walking across US from and to different high enery locations

-1 geological step in time to be 1 frame of film time

-result = a jittery, continual binding of the nation from end to end

-subjective, forward moving views

-shot through a wide angle lens = distorted the image

-suggests physics theory that time may literally bend

-shot of sun clock = time lapse shots

-speeds up/slows down

-dizzy but want to keep looking

-California to Ohio to New Mexico to California to NYC

(MoMa 2010)