Hans Zimmer’s piece Time, from the Inception soundtrack, is celebrated as one of the German composer’s most haunting and evocative compositions. It’s the emotional backbone of the film, embodying its themes of memory, loss, and the fragile line between dreams and reality.
The above video is the winner of the #EnterTheWorldOfHansZimmer contest by Shahrzad Mazloumsaki for the composition Inception: Time – Orchestra Version by Hans Zimmer.
To watch and listen to it, click the play button at the left of the feature image above.
Sony Music, with the support of YouTube, invited video creators to participate in the contest.
In making the video, Mazloumsaki and her team asked a group of people to tell their most personal stories and then asked them to listen to Time through headphones, to gauge their emotional response. “This is what they showed us,” the video makers wrote in their intro to the video.
The soundtrack of Inception was widely acclaimed and became almost as iconic as the Christopher Nolan film itself.
Inception (2010) stands out as Zimmer’s third collaboration with Nolan, following his scores for Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). He also did the soundtrack for The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Their partnership on Inception is seen as pivotal in their collaboration, as it set the stage for Zimmer to score more of Nolan’s films, including Interstellar (2014) and Dunkirk (2017).
