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<\/a><\/p>\nModernized western society, for example, sees time as teleological<\/a> progression – as if time progresses towards an end goal. Eastern civilizations such as the Hindus<\/a> of the Indus Valley society, on the other hand, have argued time is a cyclical process of creation, dissolution, and reformation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You posses a preconceived notion of how time passes, but this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something you picked up in grade school, was it? Far more likely that this perspectival interface with the environment was gradually internalized by the cultural milieu.<\/p>\n Take architecture, for example. Its very omnipresence, ironically, obscures the determined intention to physically erect the ideological underpinnings of dominant social structures. Exemplary architectural works such as the skyscrapers of Chicago illustrate the telos of reaching for the sky by focusing traversed space to a singular, upward zenith of progress.<\/p>\n We cannot experience a building without being it affecting our perception of time- the distance we stand from the skyscraper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foot draws our attention to the upward goal that attracts, or inside the stairwells beckon us to move forward. The skyscraper is a beacon towards teleogical progress – every second is an opportunity to step onward and upward.<\/p>\n Film, often deemed a plastic art because of its ability to mould reality, recreates physical phenomena over elapsed time. Yet unlike the natural, film explodes time, offering opportunities to dilate, through slow motion, accelerate via elliptical editing, or synchronize through montage.<\/p>\n Film scholar Gilles Deleuze notes a paradigm shift in film technique after World War 2: an ontological response to the over-industrialization brought about by late capitalism, the excessive telos attached to technological idealism, all coalesce into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153time image\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – rather than progress stories in real-time, many films pause to breathe for a moment and represent time itself<\/i> as the object of the image.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n