Reading of an Extract from Labyrinths by J.L. Borges

The film Reading of an Extract from “Labyrinths” by J. L. Borges shows a young woman reading an essay by Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges titled Nueva refutacion del tiempo (New Refutation of Time) out loud. Her lips can be seen moving but her voice cannot be heard. The phrases pronounced are actually shown in subtitles, but the length of the presentation is too short to permit them to be read and comprehended. This displacement and the disorder it generates reveal different levels of information de-codification in the work. This unfolding makes the limits of our perception manifest, and in this way enters into resonance with the rejection that Borges expresses for simultaneousness and succession, in other words, for the concatenation of deeds.