In The Darkness Of Time (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #30.1 extract: In The Darkness Of Time (2002)

Finally, a Godard film I like and respect. A formal experiment that contemplates time in regards to humanity, In the Darkness of Time addresses the moving force of the universe as one that brings pain and suffering which, in spite of humanity, is lost in the infinite coils of being. 

Without answers, only melancholic rumination culminated with an intimate interaction between sound and image, this short juxtaposes death and snippets of life with a solipsistic tension in its perspective. In such, loneliness and pain are presented as tools of isolation and alienation whilst they imply a simultaneous counter-point; that humanity only has itself to hold onto in face of the great arbitrariness, malleability and forgetfulness of the universe. This melancholy is, however, given further depth with the presence of art and human evil. Though we may only have each other, we are not an existential bubble illuminated and unified. Such leaves this as beautiful as it is confounding.