The Garden
Synopsis
The Garden addresses a recurring theme for David Hartt: the historically determined world that we call "natural" and tend to consider as lying beyond the flow of time. Through stop-action cinematography Hartt makes time palpable and eerie, turning the passage of seconds into a dystopian stutter.
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