Snapped this weekend at the Mammoth Film Festival.

One of the most inept contestants of all time finds light at the end of the tunnel. The journey is the reward on this one. The tears started flowing for me at after about 3:00, and just kept getting better down the stretch.

“The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
— Walt Whitman

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes explored in this nine-minute experimental film written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson. Henson also stars. Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, Time Piece enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for outstanding short subject.

“I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
–John Steinbeck

Nothing like a change of perspective to make our differences appear utterly absurd, right?

Dear Earth,

Figure it out already.

Love,

Moon

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Just because it’s impossible to watch this without smiling. What a classic show. Ain’t YouTube the shiz?

R.I.P., Fred Berry.