Wednesday, April 04, 2007

DFS bends laws of time and space with new film series

By Allison Ruderman, The Dartmouth Staff

In movies, time can take on a flexibility that just isn’t possible in the real world (if you just forget about the little time trip we all took a few weeks ago called daylight savings). Through editing and simple dramatic license, moviemakers can do whatever they want with temporal construction. Films that subvert time’s rules and logic are often among the most original and provocative ever produced, challenging the perceptive capacities and presumptions of their viewers. This term, the Dartmouth Film Society explores just that, in a film series titled “The Fabric of Time.” More »