Unlike most films, Time Piece was not written as a script. Frank Oznowicz - Office Messenger Boy, Man in Gorilla Suit, Dead man, Doctor without face.The camera then pans up towards the doctor's face, revealing him to be the same man smiling gleefully and winking at the camera. The clock strikes twelve and the film's events flash quickly on-screen.īack in the hospital room, the doctor covers the man's seemingly lifeless body. He falls from the sky defeated and lands in a muddy puddle in the form of a rustic clock. The man then jumps off a diving board and soars into the sky (aided by a flying device) where he is subsequently shot down by the world's military powers. The man eventually escapes from prison and begins to frantically run across a long distance with different disguises like a man in a top hat and Tarzan while evading cowboys. An unidentified doctor enters the room and checks the man's heart rate, which begins to pulse rhythmically.Īs the rhythm increases, the film begins to follow the man's daily habits such as crossing a busy street, in different clothes and different locations, working in a busy office, working on a conveyor belt, walking through different locations and ending up in a forest where he has the appearance of Tarzan, eating dinner with his wife, walking down the street seeing pogo stick riders, and visiting a strip club while simultaneously maintaining himself in motion.Įventually, the man is imprisoned for shooting the Mona Lisa while intoxicated (signified by a scene of him painting an elephant pink) and dressed as a cowboy and is forced to perform acts of labor like working in the rock pile. The film begins with a young man (whose only line, repeated four times, is "Help!") sitting patiently in a hospital bed. The fast-paced scenes in Time Piece are edited together in a rhythmic pentameter, with an underlying use of sounds and repetitive beats. The short film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1966. Time Piece is notable as one of the few live-action projects Jim Henson produced that did not involve any form of puppetry. The film depicts an ordinary man living in constant motion, in a desperate attempt to escape the passage of time. Time Piece is a 1965 American experimental short film directed, written, produced by and starring Jim Henson.
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