Takahiko Iimura – On Duration in Film

2 Minutes 46 Seconds 16 Frames (100 feet), which was made in 1972 – at first I chronologically wrote down the numbers one to twenty-four for a second on each frame repeatedly in 100 feet. Then next 100 feet I wrote down one to sixty for every second (at 24 frames intervals ), then only 1 and for minute. It was an attempt to show that time is also distance, especially with film. (T.I.)

"A screening of 1 To 60 Seconds at Utica college in 1976 is a case in point… After a few seconds many members of the audience had recognized that the numbers were in some definite order and that the passages of dark leader which separated the frames with the numbers had some specific relationship to numbers themselves…. everyone I talked with or saw was intensely experiencing the film by remaining acutely conscious of the passage of time and of the stately progression of Iimura's film in the theater.” Scott MacDonald, Afterimage, April 1978.