Experiencing Interruptions?

T I M E Q U A K E (2.0)

Is time buffering, or are we?

T I M E Q U A K E shares a name with the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, whose science-fiction worlds build upon an already dystopian reality with dark humour and wit. The invented term refers to a disturbance in the flow of time. Two decades after the novel’s timequake occurs on the tail of Y2K, I find the term echoing in my mind and expressing a fundamental truth about the texture of our current moment. Rather than a global computer crisis, we are navigating a new computer-based reality in the face of a global crisis.

T I M E Q U A K E explores the relationship between our bodies, our devices, and time; the lag and labour of our efforts to stay connected and keep hitting “refresh.” Have we acquired a new sense of time, or does time make any sense at all? We are literally left to our own devices.

  • Tamar Zehava Tabori
    Director
    Run-of-the-Whip-Poor-Will, Creative Process, nothing comes close, Hoover
  • Tamar Zehava Tabori
    Editor
    Run-of-the-Whip-Poor-Will, Creative Process, nothing comes close, Hoover
  • Tamar Zehava Tabori
    Key Cast
    "Dancer"
    Run-of-the-Whip-Poor-Will, Creative Process, nothing comes close, Hoover
  • Alan J McTavish
    Director of Photogprahy
    Run-of-the-Whip-Poor-Will, nothing comes close
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    dance, short, experimental, new media, video art
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 23, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tamar Zehava Tabori

Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) dances, creates videos, and contributes behind the scenes in the arts. With a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, her artistic career has taken her across various stages and screens, both nationally and internationally. Tamar is grateful to have been deeply influenced by divergent perspectives on dance and movement, having worked with and for artists and companies such as Petrikor Danse, Kivanç Tatar, Amber Downie-Back, Sophia Mai Wolfe, Scout Heckel, Bradley Eng, Jeanette Kotowich, Company 605, and The Falling Company.

Tamar's career is marked by commissions for performance, production and curation roles, aligning with her desire to share and grow within different creative capacities. Her experimental short films have screened at over 15 festivals worldwide, even finding unconventional temporary homes like building facades and public transit screens. With a personal value of defying norms and embracing movement as a constant theme, she's proud to be a part of F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement) as its Artistic Director.

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Director Statement

T I M E Q U A K E was filmed during the summer of 2020, when I was already feeling the glitch and freeze of isolation and digital overload. One year into the pandemic and we are still suspended in the “new normal,” which requires us to mould ourselves against time’s contorted contours. Our devices are extensions of ourselves: arms with which we reach out to others, brains full of thoughts and memory. And the face of the clock also wears a mask.