Pacific Time

At first viewing PACIFIC TIME appears to be a departure from the more abstract and more purely visual delights of Hocks preceding efforts Considerably longer it employs actors dialogue and plot Upon closer examination however it proves to be of a kind with his earlier output only more ambitious and perhaps more mature Again distortion of time conventions is at the forefront of Hocks array of stylistic devices But rather than the magic highly assured timelapse photography of STUDIES IN CHRONOVISION or MISSISSIPPI ROLLS here Hock employs radical slowmotion sound and brilliantly inventive written subtitles Source Douglas Edwards FIlm Commentary Louis Hock Gosh 1978