tomorrows promise (edward owens, 1967)

tomorrows promise is a film about vacantness. which physically does begin, reversed, upside down on the screen suddenly another such position is taken (not in reverse), this time by a male figure and soon, in this same section, the girl of the reversed image reappears posed in a different way; a way obsessed by mood. then a technical play of inthecameraediting occurs, more intense, brighter than in the first, reversed section. there are several intercuts which serve, in this and each subsequent section unto the end, as relative links into the final section: which is actually the story. the story the protagonist and her hero try to tell in their way is apophysis; except that pictures, clear visions take the place of words. my film could have been edited with precise tensions and a lucid straight narrative, but it was my aim to recreate the protagonist of my personal life. edward owens