If time is as tangible as anthracite, it requires a frame to help its human subjects constrain it and focus their attention on its edges. With some finetuning of imagination, those edges become more congealed, less raw. From there, those human subjects feel as if they are able to reduce time to its essential data and even forge a definition of it. One obstacle to this approach is that time is intangible to begin with, at least according to those who are averse to measurement. Proceed with caution when you are offered solid food prepared by those with such an aversion. Liquids can (mostly) be trusted. Likewise, beware the man in sandals with overly-tanned skin who is so oppressed by time that he will visit your house, invited or not, and explicitly but politely ask for all clocks to be turned off and placed safely into a single drawer for the duration of his stay. He has no occupation and he insists that his purpose is perpetually self-fulfilling, which means the smile he wears is permanent and cannot be trusted to be genuine. This man - we've met and touched him - believes that you are a time slave and that, worse, you are unaware of your own servitude. Do not invite him back into your home, but also be prepared, from that point forward, for the time captured within all of your devices to slowly start leaking from its frame. When this happens, call us immediately at our home number - this is the number you've committed to memory. We own the telephone with the curly cord.

Nicholas Flandro  director / editor 

David Bachmann contributing writer 

music by UNIVORE

UNIVORE is Nicholas Flandro & David Bachmann 

Timeframes premiered at Forward Festival Berlin 2026