Imagine a world where everything moves backwards. That's what happens in this short experimental film without words. A man wakes up to the sound of his alarm clock and begins his day, only to find that everything is running in reverse--his electric shaver, the morning paper. Out in the street, people and cars are backing away. He alone of all the crowd seems to move forward normally. The effect on him and the viewers verges on the bizarre.
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Imagine a world where everything moves backwards. That's what happens in this short experimental film without words.
A man wakes up to the sound of his alarm clock and begins his day, only to find that everything is running in reverse--his electric shaver, the morning paper. Out in the street, people and cars are backing away. He alone of all the crowd seems to move forward normally. The effect on him and the viewers verges on the bizarre.
Show this film as part of an activity on surrealism, dystopian narrative or science fiction. The script is playful, but engenders strong philosophical reflections: the themes include marginality, exclusion and profound despair. Ask students to write or produce a project inspired by those themes that questions, in a simple but fundamental way, the meaning of the everyday.
