With one frame per camera clicking away every five minutes, the finished film will look, when run through a projector at normal speed, like one of those eerie time-lapse films of a flower poking from the soil, spiraling upward and blooming.
But Mr. Eno's bells also do things physical bells never could, like emitting their harmonics in eerie reversed time or resurrecting the Tsar Kolokol III: the largest bell ever cast, which cracked before it could ring.
Playing piano or guitar alone, she sang other people's songs, including an eerie, suspended-time version of Sandy Denny's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" Rick Steff on piano and the band's strings joined her for a beautifully poised, yearning new ballad, "Where Is My Love," although she sang it while shifting nervously from foot to foot.
Returning to the idea that "nature is Satan's church", von Trier offers images of this cosmically misaligned character (who is clearly on some level a cipher for himself) drawing down the moon, basking naked in the eerie night-time glow of the titular planet that promises an end to all the evils of mankind.
My brother, who looks very much like my father, has grown even more similar to him since he died -- a gift of sorts, but also eerie at times.
His take on Back to the Future is particularly eerie in a "time is a flat circle" kind of way if time travelers are doomed to repeat themselves, what hope have we got?
It's an eerie kind of time travel, an existential transfusion.
From the official viewing area, the sight was more eerie: By the time you heard the blast, there was nothing — a gray puff, then an absence.
Metaphysical painting, of which DeChirico was a master, features the eerie suspension of time, and this car is unable to budge either.
