TimeScapes

This fifty-two-minute film was shot in the American southwest: California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. Its subject is landscape and time. Clouds passing, stars turning, desert light and the shadows of rock are shown in time-lapse, while animals and people are shown in slow motion. There is no story, no dialogue, no voiceover; the film is image and music from beginning to end. Tom Löwe shot it almost single-handed, and the technical side was talked about as much as the film itself: it was among the first works shot at 4K resolution and sold digitally at the same resolution. At the time that was a sharpness even cinemas could not reach. The film is not a documentary but an experience of watching; it describes nothing and only proposes that you look. The music was designed together with the images and the two do not come apart.