Five Days Till Tomorrow
2022
Synopsis
In a dreamy, crepuscular landscape made up of archival 1970s futuristic architecture, cut-out characters from fantasy comic books roam the night. They sleep, loll, and patiently wait for the extended darkness to come to an end.
Editorial
Clocks without hands are sign enough: this mesmerizingly animated collage exists in a realm flung from linear time. Shifting mid-century iconography into uncanny new motion, American experimental filmmaker Lewis Klahr cleverly plumbs melancholy and eeriness from the enduring ends of modernity.
