Short film
False Aging
2009 · 15 min
A dreamlike, fragmented meditation on time and loss, using collage and music to evoke a haunting sense of being out of step.
- Directed by
- Lewis Klahr
- Genres
- Animation
- Overview
- “False Aging expresses a sense of lost time, of not moving in step with the rest of the world. In one sequence Jefferson Airplane's Lather asks the question, ‘Is it true I'm no longer young?’ Time makes us prisoners locked in ourselves, like the a small yellow bird who slips behind the back of a playing card, then comes back out in front of it. In rapid alternation, they make a kind of thaumatrope, that spinning parlor trick that suggests a sense of movement in the flapping wings of a caged bird. Here the birdcage has been replaced by chance, underscoring the momentary illusion that the bird is free." - Genevieve Yue
- How it feels
- Melancholic, eerie, whimsical and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Aging, memory, isolation, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Lewis Klahr
- Genres
- Animation