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Pere Formiguera's "Cronos" has left a lasting impact on the film industry. The film's exploration of complex themes and experimental narrative structure has inspired directors such as Alejandro Amenábar ("The Sea of Trees") and David Cronenberg ("eXistenZ"). "Cronos" has also been cited as an influence by writers and artists, including Neil Gaiman and Warren Ellis.

Pere Formiguera’s (2000) is widely reviewed as a profound, wordless meditation on the passage of time, documented through 536 pages of black-and-white photography. The Project Concept

: Each person was photographed exactly once a month. The Duration : The experiment ran continuously for 10 years.

: For 10 years , each subject was photographed exactly once a month .

Yet, the creature is named Cronos. The father of the gods. The devourer. Perhaps Formiguera is suggesting that photography itself is a kind of Cronos—a medium that consumes reality and regurgitates a simulacrum. Every photograph devours its subject, converting three-dimensional, temporal life into a flat, eternal corpse. Cronos the creature is already dead; Cronos the photograph keeps him undead.