What Distinguishes the Past
2020, English. Directed by Ben Russell.
"The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time." – Stephen Hawkings
Featuring a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD, here is an(other) attempt to find a way through the everywhere fog of 2020. Filmed between 2019's Carpathian Mountains, Vilnius punk clubs and Belarusian Independence Day celebrations. This is an overgrown path, a ghost-poem, a companion piece to Jonathan Schwartz's FOR THEM ENDING (2006) – and a memorial for Jonathan, completed two years after his death.
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- English
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- 25 November 2020
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What Distinguishes the Past isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 25 November 2020. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed What Distinguishes the Past?
What Distinguishes the Past (2020) was directed by Ben Russell.