ab aeterno Original

‘ab aeterno’ is an experimental film installation to compose an artist interpretation of the infinitely remote point of time in the past. The visual elements are focused into fundamental states of matter; such as solid, liquid, gas, & plasma, among micro and macro phenomena.

Inspiration comes from a various explanation of collective memory seen across our intellectual knowledge. In ancient Indian philosophy known as Akasha, in Buddhism Kokū , in modern we can see it through Carl Gustav Jung’s Collective Unconsciousness or Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance. Additionally, Baba collated the visual ideas with his 6 year old daughter, to examine a common imagination seen through different minds.

Technically speaking, the images were taken from the ordinary daily moments and science museums, all shot in actual footage without 3D CG being used. Most of the scenes are realized by mixing lights, fire, water, smoke, and plasma, resulting a spacy aesthetic. The music was associated to frequency related to Earth’s vibration, known as Schumann Resonance. Baba hypothesizes this resonance is the frequency to deliver information from the collective memory, potentially functioning as a part of Gaia network.

The artist examines the imaginary fragments of our long time memory, assembling the remnants of resonance, scarcely after birth of time and space.