Hasta La Ideas

I guess it seems obvious that Jim Henson was into experimental films, but I was totally surprised by Timepiece, his surrealist film from the mid-60s. Somewhere between Modern Times and Koyaanasqatsi, the film includes “an examination of workplace drudgery, a prolonged dinner sequence (intended as a spoof of a scene from the film Tom Jones), and a nightclub visit satirizing the striptease (including a dancing roast chicken and a marionette skeleton),” all in reference to the recurring motif of the passage of time. My favorite part is two minutes and thirty seconds in, where office stamps deliver unexpected messages.

Watch it above or read more about it here.

Thanks, Thom!

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