In the blink of an eye, an animated video essay, uses slit-scanning technique to explore gestural micro movements, as two young girls meet. The polymorphous eye movements slide away from each other, causing moments of dissonance, not quite communicating. The moments of stillness draw out this lack of connection, they activate the interval.
I explore the notion of the time-slip through time displacement techniques in film, such as slit-scanning: an analogue technique which was originally used to determine the outcome of a horse-race by filming through a slit. This technique has been reproduced digitally, using displacement maps: whereby the lighter luminescence of the frame, is replaced by pixels at the same position but further forward in time, and the darker part by those backwards in time; resulting in a polymorphous mix of times in one frame.