Moment

A view of a gas station as seen from inside, behind a multi-panelled rotating tyre ad. display. A simple series of normal gas station events is seen through the opening display in a two and a half minute sequence. This original footage is then seen seven more times divided and rearranged in reverse order, each time the divisions being greater in number (small in size). Finally the size of the division is a single frame and the film appears to run backwards.
A theory: Looking in from the frontside of the display, its images appear frontwards and continuous. Looking out from behind, it is frontwards and discontinuous. But if n = the number of panels (divisions) in the turning display, as n approaches infinity, the image, looking out approaches being backwards and continuous. This is a theoretical limit.
The limit is not really an ideal. It is a basic unit of information of the system i.e in photography, a grain, in a half tone print, a dot , in a T.V a line. These are all examples of 2 or 3D. The same is true in time: in sound, a wavelength, in tape a magnetised particle or one head gap width. In film, it is the Frame.
In information theory, however, a basic unit of information is defined as that entity perceived in the moment, the moment being defined by the shortest duration at which no distinction can be made between units of information and the sound becomes a tone, (15 cps)
All reproducing media, in order to present an illusion of continuous time/space, rely on a basic unit of information shorter than the moment.
Moment is a demonstration – exploration of the line between human information and machine information: a dynamic revelation of film’s basic unit, the frame.