Kii Nche Ndutsa - Time and the Seashell

Time and the Seashell is a 13-minute experimental short film as well as a video installation on two screens, directed, photographed and edited by Dr. Itandehui Jansen. It was filmed in an Indigenous community in Mexico with non-trained actors.

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The short film Time and the Seashell explores philosophic conceptions of time in relation to storytelling and identity. Building on Tim Ingold’s ideas on lines, this project considers cinema as a series of lines connecting in time and space. The project investigates how different lines such as threads and traces are present both in the process of filmmaking as within film itself and how this is related to time.

The narrative revolves around an adult man who tries to return to his memories as a small boy, while the boy he once was, tries to imagine his future self. The adult man and the young boy are visually connected through a seashell he found in his childhood.

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This dataset is held in the Edinburgh DataVault, directly accessible only to authorised University of Edinburgh users. External users may request access to a copy of the data by contacting the Principal Investigator, Contact Person or Data Manager named on this page or email CAHSS REF: cahss.ref@ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh users who wish to have direct access should consult the information about retrieving data from the DataVault at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-support/datavault .