The Measure adapts Robert Creeley's poem into a science-fiction fable about a scientist who becomes consumed by his pursuit to understand the nature of time and the possibility of time travel.  

Through a cinematographic approach, the series examines the theme of obsession as frustration, both mental and physical: a pragmatic mind grinding against an impossible limit until its own reasoning becomes a trap. Exploring the idea of becoming imprisoned by one’s own ways of reasoning. The images reflect the emotional weight that the character experiences as he’s perception of reality warps in his searches for questions without answers.  

The project's narrative is divided in three strands—his point of view, his lab journal, and his experiments—the narrative layers into a crescendo, growing increasingly erratic.
The end result is a juxtaposition of the character’s inner turmoil with the metaphysical elements that his experiments produce, a visceral trip into madness. 


The poem:


"I cannot
move backward
or forward.

I am caught.
in the time
as measure.

What we think of
we think of---
of no other reason


we think than
justo to think--
each for himself."