Timelapse

How it happens

In Act 2 we have some conceptual time-ramping going on :) Gilgamesh-who-is-on-the-train is looking out the window of her moving train. She sees a Light and Dark: the station followed by the tunnel - as the train moves on the track. Every station she sees is the same station but later in time. As her train speeds up these successive moments start flickering at 24 fps, coming to life. Now we have a timelapse, as each frame can be seperated by years, decades, or even centuries (thing 24 year/second, 24 decades/second or even 24 centuries/second!)

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What Happens

Timelapse Starts/Rotting Cockroach

When the timelapse starts we see Gilga injured ... she has a special place in the timelapse as she is in the same fixed time reference as the camera - in other words: even though it might be 24 centuries per second for the station, it's always 24 frames per second for gilga! Crazy, right? What's even crazier is what follows ;) For the poor dead enkidu-roach though, things are not so cool, and he quickly rots away into nothing. We can think of the timelapse 'accelerating' throughout it's existence, so when we start, we're looking at days/weeks only. Enough time for a cockroach to dissappear.