Speed: In Search of Lost Time

The documentary opens with a contradiction. Never in history have we worked so efficiently, and never have we saved time with such sophisticated tools. Even so, almost everyone feels an increasing pressure of time. The question the film asks is this: why does technology built to make life easier end up pressing on people. The director takes that question to people in different kinds of work and to specialists. Burnout, speed and the calendar are all inside the account. The work does not look for the answer in a single culprit. The account moves in the shape of a personal search. Who time actually belongs to sits at the centre of the account. Florian Opitz’s German documentary was completed in 2012.