Tag: Film music
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The Present Is the Past Is the Present: Sonic Repetition and Temporal Distortion in Enys Men
VIDEO ESSAY. Steven Sehman, in his video essay on Enys Men (2022), examines the effect of filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s highly repetitive soundtrack on the film’s sense of time. Linear temporality relies on a cause-and-effect syntax: this will lead to that. But what happens when extreme repetition subverts such causality? Does time continue to move forward? Does it stand still? Or does it move into the past?