This film was only available during the Computer Baroque online exhibition, which ran from 14 April-14 July 2009.

A film by John Tonkin
Produced in association with the Australian Film Council

A seductively meditative computer animation about the passing of time. The filmmaker has used physically based modelling to simulate the aerodynamics of falling paper.

John Tonkin wrote his own physical simulation software to choreograph this simple but elegiac meditation on the bureaucratic paper trails that measure the passage of our lives.

John Tonkin began making experimental film and video in the early 1980s and started working with computer animation in 1985. Tonkin makes his works using his own custom software. In 1999-2000 he received a fellowship from the Australia Council's New Media Arts Board. He currently lectures within the Digital Cultures Program, at the University of Sydney.

His animations include air, water parts 1, 2 & 3 (1993–95), a series of lyrical and poetic studies of the elements air and water, and these are the days (1994) a meditation on the passing of time. They were screened extensively both within Australia and internationally including International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA 93) Minneapolis USA, and Prix Ars Electronica 1994, Austria.

Tonkin's works have often involved building frameworks / tools / toys within which the artwork is formed through the accumulated interactions of its users. His recent projects have used real-time 3D animation, visualisation and data-mapping technologies. These include Strange Weather (2005), a visualisation tool for making sense of life, and time and motion study (2006).

Recent major exhibitions have included Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh 2007 and National New Media Art Award Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Queensland Art Gallery 2009.