Our Time Machine
"Strike[s] a tricky balance between a high-stakes making-of documentary and an intimate, observational family portrait."
Our Time Machine
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer's disease, he creates "Papa's Time Machine"--a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
Genre
Documentary,
Art & Artists
Web Site
Runtime
81
Language
Mandarin
Director
Yang Sun,
S Leo Chiang
Writer(s)
Bob Lee,
S Leo Chiang
FEATURED REVIEW
Scott Tobias, Variety
For his latest project, Shanghai artist Maleonn, a tireless creator of life-sized puppets and mechanical objects, is in a race against the clock, desperate to stage an autobiographical play about time and memory before his father succumbs to Alzheimer’s. The relationship between Maleonn’s abstract ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 9.11.20 - 9.24.20
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