Living in a Reversed World (1958)
1958 · Short film · 10 min · dir. Theodor Wrismann
- Documentary
Synopsis
Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several weeks wears special glasses that reverse right and left and up and down. Unexpectedly, these macabre and somehow surrealist experiments reveal that our perception of these aspects of vision is not of an optical nature and cannot be relied on, while the unfortunate, Kafkaesque subject stubbornly struggles through a morass of continuous failures.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Theodor Wrismann
- Released
- 1958-01-02
- Running time
- 10 minutes
Cast & crew
- Theodor Wrismann Director
- James J. Gibson
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Might explain some drivers out there · Spuzz · 2016-09-03
Great surreal film featuring a wacko scientist leading experiments featuring volunteers who get to wear head gear that force their left right perspective to be reversed, and in another experiment ther up down factor is reversed. These experiments are fun, and the images in the film are amazing. Very bizarre! This film is highly recommended by me!