VIFF 2015: Stroll down memory lane with Sam Klemke’s Time Machine

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      Sam Klemke’s Time Machine (Australia)  

      Sam Klemke himself isn’t the most substantial person to document the past half-century, but that’s kind of the point of this stroll down memory lane. The Denver-raised Klemke snagged various video cameras as the technology emerged and recorded his life concerns—chiefly about his weight and his inability to keep girlfriends around. These don’t change much through the years, but the country around him keeps shifting.

      Intriguingly, he trusted his video trove to Australian Matthew Bate, who intercuts the footage with a faux documentary on the golden records that Carl Sagan assembled for the 1977 Voyager spacecraft. The effect is slightly overused, but the fact that these bits are narrated in French adds to the beauty of the writing.

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