Time Medicine is a collaboration with composer and musician Eyvind Kang. Taking the apprehension of natural scenes and movements as its subject, the film is composed of landscape images evoking long histories and well wrought symbols while simultaneously creating immediate, sensorial experience in color and sound. This oscillation between history and the present is the basis for a play between representation and abstraction at the heart of the film’s editing structure. The images thereby align with how Kang describes his musical practice as concretizing an “apparent emergence of life...what Marx calls a 'social hieroglyphic', in technique, cultivated by practices which are themselves sustained by the real relations of student to teacher to student.” Material histories of instruments and the knowledge it takes to bring forth their sounds thereby come to bear on the undertow of the visuals. It is this collision between matter and time that allows us to experience the work as a push and pull evolution cut by moments of force and clarity.