Fashionably Late for a Relationship

There's an interesting article in the New York Times about a project called "Fashionably Late for a Relationship". The production doubles as a live performance piece and as a film since it is being shot in the middle of Manhattan for all pedestrians to see. The concept is that a girl (actress Lian Amaris Sifuentes) is going through the ritual of preparing for a date but is going at a speed much slower than the world around her. For example, live in real time, the actress takes seven hours to drink a single glass of wine. In the film version, everything will be sped up to make it look as if the actress is going at normal speed while the rest of the world is rushing past her.

It's a great statement on how the pace of the world is becoming too fast for a lot of us to establish meaningful relationships with people. For any chance of real connection with another person, we have to rebel against this tyrannical speed set by the modern workplace and media overload. To bring the point home, the props and the set of the actress is intentionally old-fashioned so that even the girl's room joins in her rebellion.