The unilinear history that Vattimo discusses and that postmodernism negates has rarely been seen in the films we have screened in this class. The autobiographical films we have seen can be categorized as unilinear, though Speaking Directly certainly pushes the idea that an autobiographical piece can work outside of the constraints of linear history.
What fascinates me about this is it seems as though a lot of my present time is dealing with past actions and future possibilities in a folded web of time. And though my 'life story' can be told chronologically, how can a proper rendering of one's life be told in a 2D chronological story when the multidimensional experience of life seems to be so much more?
It Wasn't Love deals with this with an extreme focus on a moment or event that is multi-layered and filled with something that is beyond a linear telling of a story. So, maybe after we rip the myth and the science from our stories what we have left is the moment or love or emotion or something that only art can express and what myth and science can't.
I think a good way to apply this to our projects would be to try to focus on a moment or an emotion or 'love' or something that is not dependent upon science or myth and doesn't necessarily have to be told as a complete story.
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