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{{Short description|1993 documentary film by Ross McElwee}}
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| name           = Time Indefinite
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| director       = [[Ross McElwee]]
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| writer         = Ross McElwee
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| cinematography = Ross McElwee
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| runtime        = 114 min.
| language       = English
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'''''Time Indefinite''''' is an autobiographical 1993 [[documentary film]] directed by [[Ross McElwee]]. It explores themes of [[grief]], mortality, and the convenient disconnection of watching life through a camera lens.

The title comes from a passage from the [[Bible]] mentioned by a visiting [[Jehovah's Witness]]. McElwee is filming the interaction and focused on adjusting the exposure to try to catch the play of light over the man's face; distracted, he "hears" the phrase about 30 seconds after the man says it and understands it to refer to the unpredictable imminence of death.