Time Machine: Victor Jessen, Time's Surreptitious Splicer
Still from Jessen's animated credit sequence for Theme and Variations.  The filmmakers name descends with wisps of cotton clouds. Like the ever branching dendritic pattern water takes in its descent, human obsessions take random alternate paths. One branch comes to an impasse (like a stone or a twig in water's path) and leads to a room full of newspapers, another leads to a room where artisan dilettantes asse…