A TRIBUTE TO SLOWNESS

On the occasion of the millennium, the concept of time has become a major topic of debate within the entertainment and computer industries. But who is it that administers time today, and who is it that determines «landmark-dates»? «It is the stockmarket which measures time, and it is that time which passes and is measured by watches», is the answer of the films narrator. This is an invisible hero, whom we perceive through the films narration, and who inhabits the bodies of children, passers-by, the elderly, inhabitants of urban and rural areas, and also actors, who play out various rhythms of the human body. The hero of the film is born like a firework, together with the explosion of the millennium. Growing up, he experiences everything in haste: games, knowledge, writing, work, food, travel, love. From video games to fast food to phone sex, his life is built upon an alienated management of time. At the same time, ordinary people confess their need for the safeguarding of values that exist in slowness, in the durability of human actions. Finally, images from the variety of Natures rhythms and the art of Rodins sculptures restore the measure of a lost balance.