Seb Pacquet discusses the impact on our sense of perceptions of time dilation: compression of time through time lapse photography for example:

"Funny how looking at familiar things in a different way helps you rediscover the beauty in them.

Boingboing: This is a breathtaking 24h time-lapse film of the Toronto skyline. The sunrise, in particular, is spectacular.

I seem to remember that the movie Baraka (which I coincidentally just found mentioned alongside other movies in comments to this) starts out with a few great, reflection-triggering time-lapse sequences. Here's a relevant bit of Roger Ebert's review of that movie:

Time-lapse photography can be dismissed as a gimmick, but for me it's something more than that. It's a visual demonstration of how fleeting life is. Of how the decisions that seem momentous on our time scale are flickering instants in the life of the planet, too small to be observed except on the minute scale of human life. Somehow the technique makes the earth and its inhabitants seem touchingly fragile."

We are increasingly time compressed, in our lives and work, and the metaphor of time compression makes us reflect on our place in the world, seemingly like flotsam on the ocean, and at the same time this highlights our connectedness and relationship to the world and society.