3 Years 3 Minutes

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3 Years 3 Minutes is a short film composed entirely of 11896 photos taken by Felix Jung over 3 years.

From the project's about page:

I originally got the idea after importing my photos into Picasa, and watching thumbnails of each image flash by. Seeing that mini-movie, I decided a larger, sped-up version would be pretty neat to view.

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At the end of the day, I intended for this project to be a sort of summary - an accounting for how I spent my time. While there's a lot that happens within a year, a year goes by faster than we realize.

I wanted to portray both sensations, the density and rapidity of it all. I hope this little movie came close to capturing that feeling.

The rapid blur of images is often overwhelming and exhilarating. The music supplies a sense of rhythm and structure to that blur.

There are serendipitous moments where two or three subframes show images related to each other in terms of people and events depicted or visual aspects like color and dominant shapes. I would have preferred to see more moments like that, making use of the split screens to create and show linkages across three years, but it would be a different project and a different film.

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