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In 1961, a time when the world was scrambling to shiny new heights with towering skyscrapers and novel machinery, the young explorers of the Piedmont Speleological Group ventured into the rural Italian South, searching for undiscovered primeval depths. The abyss they eventually descended deep into turned out to be the...
2008. Bridgeport, Connecticut. A teenage girl is found dead in her room. Going between spaces geographical, mental and historical, the film is an innovative exploration of concepts of identity, searching for a ‘maison’ (house) to shelter a complex identity....
Time is life’s ultimate currency. What we do with it – often trading it for a manmade currency like money – usually requires rational thought on a constant basis. Life’s currency is not fair from person to person, for some have more than others, and even the ones with seemingly...
We take it for granted that time is an objective, linear, and constant presence in our lives. After all, it seems difficult to imagine a life that exists outside of time. Yet, as proven by Matthew McConaughey’s reaction in Interstellar upon his character’s return to the spacecraft, he discovers that...
Click. A snap on the camera captures a moment in time, whether it is a fresh graduate collecting his degree scroll or a couple raising their glasses to a toast at their wedding. Before the age of smartphones, we printed photographs and arranged them neatly into albums that tell stories...
Being both an NTU student and resident of Singapore’s east means I am no stranger to a protracted, time-sucking commute. I usually try to squeeze all the productive work possible out of my close to 2-hour journey back home—since entering university, I have become the seasoned practitioner of a precarious...