Trådar (threads) is inspired by the chronophotographers’ technique of showing all the images from one sequence at one time in one place. The work is also inspired by dissatisfaction with the conventional cinematic technique of screening only one frame at a time.

Pia Jönsson lays the frames of her film out in a continuously moving quilt or weave of images. The viewer can view the relationship between the past, the present and the future in one screen at any one time. The weave reveals the otherwise invisible dynamic relationships between the colours, movement and light of the frames. The rhythm of the movie becomes visible and the quilt becomes a storytelling device as well as one large continuously moving landscape of colours, geometry and shapes.

In the landscape that Jönsson weaves, the viewer can enjoy an extended voyeuristic pleasure. The viewer can see what is happening, what has just happened and what will happen. Her work is the visual correlate to Bergson’s durée and to listening to a melody when one does not just hear the current note, but relates that sound to what has been heard before and to what one anticipates.