Inspired by a quote from Paul Valéry, the time of the finite world begins explores the end of a world once believed to be inexhaustible. Through archival footage from the 1950s, taken from the 16mm film, Pleasure for All by the National Film Board of Canada, an era of triumphant modernity where humans reshape the earth as if it were a playground, the film subtly reveals the early signs of a coming shift. By intervening directly on the film stock, scratching it, testing it, the cinematic gesture becomes a metaphor: that of a wounded, altered world, marked by human traces. This film is a visual meditation on finitude, on the growing awareness that everything has a limit: the land, time, bodies. Between memory and material, play and disappearance, the time of the finite world begins confronts us with our legacy and the urgent need to see it differently.