In Against Time, Ben Russell once again explores the relationship between image and sound, which he has always been interested in. The film shakes the visual perception through dynamic changes of sound and image along the trajectory of red and blue colors and fleeting fireworks. From a concert stage bursting with blue flames to a tunnel in Marseille, what is revealed on that long night's journey is a loss of sense of time. In Russell's film, where the transition from one state to another is audiovisually signaled, the collage of the visual and the auditory creates a dynamism between the images. As the images chase, embrace, bump, push and pull each other, the music moves in a rhythm as if hammering them. Against Time regards these two perceptual movements as experiments against the property of time. Like Russell's other films, it was shot on 16mm to show the active rhythm of movement and transition.​