Ten Thousand Things

The flowing river of time is endless and inevitable – so why do people kid themselves into thinking their life stands still? This film presents a journey through a man’s collected moments, touching on many human issues including childhood, tradition, love and voyeurism. A poetic narration crafted from the words of Jorge Luis Borges accompanies.

All the footage was shot on a mobile phone then recorded again off a laptop screen – this was to accentuate one of the film’s themes that technology, and in particular digital screens, seem to create barriers to reality. The narration was artificially constructed from a series of lectures by Borges about poetry. Single words and phrases were chopped up to create a new poetic discourse that aligns with the footage.