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COVER STORY First Night 2000: A sampler Time out     "Shrine to Ritualized Time," a six-minute film by Karen Aqua and Jane Gillooly, shows how different cultures think of time. It will be projected onto an outside wall of the Boston Public Library. (Film Still/Karen Aqua) MORE INFORMATION Dusk Friday. Projected on the BPL's Dartmouth Street entrance "Shrine to Ritualized Time" This day - this New Year's, this passage from one millennium to the next, if you view it that way - will never come again. Or will it? "We see New Year's Eve as a point on a linear line," observes filmmaker and animator Karen Aqua, who collaborated with artist Jane Gillooly to make "Shrine to Ritualized Time." "A lot of other cultures think of time as a circle." The six-minute film, projected continuously after dark on the Dartmouth Street side of the Boston Public Library, is "a celebration of rites and symbols people have created to connote the passage of time," says Aqua. That includes symbols representing the seasons, months, and days, and the elements of fire, air, water, and earth in relation to time. It spans ancient readings of time, like the sundial, to the more contemporary, such as clocks. For the artists, "Shrine to Ritualized Time" marks a kind of cyclical time. They first showed it at First Night 10 years ago, but in a different form. "We've jazzed it up for the millennium," Aqua says. She's added a few live-action shots. Plus, the musical backdrop is celebratory, a piece composed by Ken Field and Ken Winokur. "There will be speakers on the street, and we're hoping people will use the space as a dance floor," Aqua says. "Copley Square as a big dance plaza." At 11:59 p.m. on Friday, the film will stop and the artists present an animated video projection countdown, made especially for the millennium celebration. - Cate McQuaid Previous page | Next page

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