Time Limits
Original title: Grenzen der Zeit
Duration: 49’30’’
Producer: AV-DOKUMENTA production for ORF-NHU
Director: Steve Nichollis / Alfred Vendl
Participant: NHU / Walter Köhler
Company: ORF-NHV
Scientific field: Experimental / Technologies / Biology / Zoology
Year: 2007
Country: Austria
We perceive time in terms of seconds – the length of a heartbeat. We can’t even imagine
events that unfold over several days, like a growing plant, without time-lapse photography, but
“Time Limits” uses a combination of amazing new camera techniques, dramatic computer
animation and the latest scientific advances to give a totally new view of our world and our
universe. Specially developed motion-control time-lapse photography will bring to life the slow
motion world of plants. We will journey into shorter timescales to find elements that exist for
less than a millionth of a second, or elementary particles that flash into existence for less than
a billionth of a second.
Time Limits 
