In a Minute

Approaching graduation, a filmmaker reflects on an old friend’s engagement and her own mother’s retirement, life stages unfolding at different speeds. Inviting participants to record half-minute fragments, she expands personal narratives into collective memory. Through action prompts and moving images, time is deconstructed and reassembled into overlapping rhythms of presence and change.

Sammi Sum-yi Chiu: ‘During my school years, I often felt that time was flying by, and I was suddenly confronted with constant change. I initially hoped to reflect on my time at school, but while searching for the meaning of time, I discovered that it appears rational and orderly, yet can still be shaped to meet different people’s needs. Perhaps “time” is merely a container we fill with meaning — encountering people from different time zones, and adjusting our own “time” accordingly.’