A new joint acquisition by the Met and SFMOMA, William Kentridge's five-channel video installation The Refusal of Time (2012) is a thirty-minute meditation on time and space, the complex legacies of colonialism and industry, and the artist's own intellectual life. Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, where he still lives and works. After drama school, Kentridge was active in theater and television production in the 1970s and 1980s. By the 1990s—coinciding with the abolishment of apartheid in South Africa—Kentridge's live theater work and the stop-motion animated films he developed from charcoal drawings found an increasingly international audience. Kentridge's recent interest in the nature of time was given focus through the work of Peter Galison, a Harvard-based historian of science. Galison studied a 1905 paper on relativity in which Albert Einstein hypothesized that, due to the delay in signals relayed via telegraph wire, peripheral railway stations synchronized on a centralized clock were forever fated to operate seconds behind schedule. Einstein's nascent theories about the relativity of time converged with French mathematician Henri Poincaré's development, as president of the Bureau des Longitudes, of global time zone maps at the dawn of the twentieth century. Both scientists faced the radical idea, in a newly industrialized and interconnected world, that time is not absolute but relative and resistant to control. At the center of the installation is a moving sculpture—the "breathing machine" or "elephant"—an organ-like automaton with a pumping bellows. Plans from the 1870s for copper pneumatic tubes under the streets of Paris that would pump regular bursts of air to calibrate the city's clocks reminded Kentridge of a passage from Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (1854). Dickens describes a factory machine moving "monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness"—a metaphor for the often convulsive developments in science and industry during the modern era and a reminder of the vain impulse to control time.

夜深人静，万籁俱寂。从不停歇的只有时间，以及映射着时间流动的钟表。放入坠入永眠的都市，成群的鱼儿在街头巷尾穿梭游动。整点时分，带有报点功能的钟表开始聒噪起来。夜即将走到尽头，被浸泡在海洋中的城市得以重见光明。收拾得体的男子穿戴整齐，背着筐走到阳光下。被海水浸泡过的城市折射出别样的魅力，男人四处游走，寻找着那些被遗落在角落里的钟表。城市空无一人，静得让人心慌。这时候，男人突然听到附近玩具店传来的响动，他走了进去，在不起眼的角落里见到了拿着玩具闹钟的小女孩，不过他似乎对此并不感兴趣。 不知不觉中，潮汐悄然而至，城市即将再度安眠于海水之下……

《时间的答卷》是一档以电视化、艺术化形式再现党的百年奋斗历程中伟大精神的节目。节目每期提炼一个共产党人的核心品质，共分为“初心”、“血肉”、“公仆”、“忠诚”、“自强”、“胸怀”、“奋斗”、“担当”八个篇章，采用创新讲故事的切入点，让革命故事不空、不“虚”，从一个个具体的人物出发，让与事件相关联的人物现身演播室，通过沉浸式媒体艺术空间语言聚焦此情此景，通过互动访谈的方式，口述不为人知的当代传承故事。

多年前，苏曼与亲姐姐陈曦（哑女），因父母双亡，两人一个随父姓、一个随母姓，两人相依为命。陈曦原本极度爱护妹妹，却在结婚后与苏曼断了联系（林正国控制欲极强，不让她跟其他人往来），不久后意外身亡。苏曼为此痛苦不已，就在这时，她遇到了林正国。林正国身世可怜，无父无母，而他的生活习惯与爱好，都让苏曼想起了自己的姐姐陈曦。于是，苏曼爱上了林正国，还一路扶持他成为富商，两人共同孕育了一个儿子。 十八年后，苏曼意外得知了姐姐死亡的真相：原来陈曦的隐婚对象正是林正国，林正国为了霸占陈曦手中父母留下的一半遗产，竟将她活活害死，即使当时陈曦已经怀了他的孩子，他只觉得哑巴生下来的孩子也是托累。

本剧根据玛丽亚·杜埃尼亚斯的同名畅销小说改编而来。天真烂漫的裁缝姑娘在结婚前夕，和未婚夫走向一家打字机专卖店，一推开门廊，她早已确定的命运即被彻底改变：一笔巨额财产和从未谋面的父亲，都从天而降！整个地中海沿岸成了她的舞台：政治、谍战、阴谋、冒险…… 这些原本与她毫不相干的东西，一时间都与她呼吸相闻。

梅格（斯托姆·里德 Storm Reid 饰）是一位平凡的10岁女孩，身形瘦小性格腼腆的她在学校里常常受到其他同学的欺负，这让她感到非常的苦恼。实际上，梅格拥有一对了不起的父母，他们两人都是世界知名的物理学家，梅格继承了他们优秀的基因，只是现在这基因还没有启动。 在一次冒险中，梅格的父亲失踪了，这给梅格带来了很大的打击。梅格的弟弟查尔斯（德里克·麦凯布 Deric McCabe 饰）不忍心看见姐姐闷闷不乐的样子，于是召唤出了命运三女神。她们告诉了梅格关于她父亲下落的线索，于是，梅格决定带着弟弟，以及一位暗恋着她的同班同学卡尔文（莱维·米勒 Levi Miller 饰）一起踏上了寻父之旅。

一个生活在1989年的女孩和一个生活在2001年的男孩通过一台神秘的无线电彼此产生了联系。他们想要约见，才发现一个生活在过去，一个生活在未来。女孩喜欢着身边的一个同事，常常和男孩讲述自己的心情。后来有一天，男孩突然说到自己的双亲，父亲正好就是女孩喜欢的那个同事的名字，可是母亲却不是女孩，而是女孩的一个好朋友。女孩很受打击，两人渐渐没了联系。后来，男孩想办法找到了在自己的时代的那个女孩，已经成为一个老师。他靠在路边，悄悄地看着女孩，然后回去，用无线电对1989的女孩说，我去看了现在的你，看起来很幸福。（本影片是2000年韩国影片remember me的翻拍）

A group of friends meet up every year at a villa for a birthday party. This year, they discover there may be only a few hours left before the end of the world.

Over a million women have modeling portfolios online. BROKEN SIDE OF TIME is the story of Dolce, one of the models who've made a career of it. But now 30, and tired of competing with 18-year-olds, Dolce realizes what makes her feel most alive is also killing her. Before starting a new career behind the camera, she embarks on a long road trip home, shooting with her favorite photographers one last time, and shedding her lifestyle-acquired vices along the way. Combing real photoshoots shot cinéma vérité-style with a narrative based on some very real-life adventures in front of the lens, BROKEN SIDE OF TIME is a dark, sexual glimpse into a world never before captured in a film. A world where any woman can play the role of a model, and any man can be a photographer, and where even the best of them must consider whether the fame and money is worth the cost.

在宁静的阿斯图里亚斯小村庄，一位年轻摄影师卢卡怀着寻找灵感和探寻根源的心情而来，寄宿在隐居的奶酪手工师傅瑄安的家中。瑄安因往日流言蜚语而被村民疏远，独自生活在自我隔离的世界里。 起初，两人之间存在戒备和隔阂，但随着日复一日的相处，这些情绪逐渐消融。卢卡的镜头聚焦于瑄安的 日常生活，而瑄安也在年轻人的陪伴中重新找回对生活的渴望。 瑄安的旧伤和卢卡的漂泊岁月使他们的关系面临考验。在这两个不同世界的交汇中，他们逐渐走近彼此。