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2025 · 13 min · Documentary
In conversation with his young son, a filmmaker wonders about time — our attempts to control it, and how it controls us. Intimate and political, poetic and scientific, the film explores the tension between objective and subjective time: from physicists tending atomic clocks, to people's daily encounters with the temporal, to the instrumentalization of time for power and commerce.
Directed by Todd Chandler
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MovieDocumentary
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MovieDocumentary
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2018
MovieDocumentary
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MovieDocumentary
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Movie
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MovieDocumentary
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2017
MovieDocumentary
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