Our Time Machine
Mon, Nov 23
|Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a wondrous time-travel adventure performed on stage with life-size mechanical puppets. Through creation he finds grace and unexpected joy in this moving meditation on the circle of life.
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2020, 7:00 PM – Dec 14, 2020, 11:59 PM
Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
About the event
Virtual Tickets are $12. for a streaming window of 72 hours. Watch: https://www.epsilonspires.org/our-time-machine
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Our Time Machine (2019). Directed by Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang.
When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. ) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date - a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets called "Papa's Time Machine".Maleonn
His puppets brilliantly externalize how our minds reconstruct remembered events as abstractions based not in specific details but heightened emotion. Their ingeniously designed wires and gears represent nothing less than the mechanics of memory which, like all mortal faculties, have an expiration date. Through the…