Apparent Time (2023)

Apparent Time is an 11-minute film, with sound, formed from a handful of archival photographs, slides, and postcards, footage of the un-doing of a piece of woven fabric, and the erasure of a tattoo.

The film’s central subject is a photograph titled, 'Photo 9 - Boat on the spot where Elugelab once stood, now a crater, 1972’ taken in Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 20 years after the nuclear device ‘Mike’ was detonated there, completely vaporising the island of Elugelab.

The film’s audio and monologue focus attention on the seemingly fixed positions presented in the imagery in order to enable telescopic views of time, and events, to be rendered.

‘Apparent Time’ is also the act of measuring time by observing the shadows cast on a surface produced by the sun’s rays falling onto an object.