Perspective, Time, and Space

One of the themes Dr. Bars finds in his work, and one he'll discuss during seminar, is perspective. He gives the example of looking at an object from different angles and says that " this will be an analogy for casting events in our usual space-time as being perspectives of what goes on in a higher dimensional space-time."

I started thinking about the theme of perspective and its huge relevance in animation and film. Obviously the viewer has to know the point of view(s) of the film in order to understand its context. I thought about some of the animations and animators I've seen that played with different perspectives in an interesting way. The first animator that came to mind was Priit Parn. He constantly played with changes in perspective, time and space in his films, like Breakfast on the Grass (I tried finding clips online but there are none to be found). The film is about several people in Soviet society whose lives run parallel until they ultimately meet in the setting of the famous Manet painting Breakfast on the Grass. There are elements in each character's story that somehow intersects with another character's story. It also played with the idea that events that occurred in one character's life altered or determined what happened in another's. The ending is even more bizarre when the characters end up in another time and space - in an 1863 French painting.

I'm interested in learning more about Dr. Bars' ideas about a second time dimension. Already in film and animation, time has no rules - the filmmaker is in the unique position to manipulate time; a one minute film can cover a span of years and a two hour movie can be about something that happens in a half hour. It would be interesting to see how filmmakers play with the idea of a second time dimension. Would it be another device to enhance films or would it not really matter since time is already so malleable in the realm of film?