While it often seems that cinema is based on a linear story, design plays a major role in unfolding the cinematic timeline: the opening subtitles allude to the plot, set design indicates the characters background story, costumes express a mood and a period, complete imagined spaces are assembled into to appear on screen. The aspect of time, which introduces technological innovations that expand the expression of design in films, simultaneously mines its own death in the industry. Editing is no longer linear, day is designed as night, buildings crumble only to be rebuilt, objects and motion are written into the image and out of it. The event Design and Time in Cinema explores both areas in the film industry, and who has the upper hand.