Alan Watts Time (1979)

Director: Henry Jacobs Producer: Henry Jacobs Genre: Animation, Short Country: United Kingdom Language: English A trippy timebased animation through digital revolution. An Animated Alan Watts Waxes Philosophical about Time in The Fine Art of Goofing Off, the 1970s Sesame Street for GrownUps. Time is a measure of energy, a measure of motion. And we have agreed internationally on the speed of the clock. And I want you to think about clocks and watches for a moment. We are of course slaves to them. And you will notice that your watch is a circle, and that it is calibrated, and that each minute, or second, is marked by a hairline which is made as narrow as possible, as yet to be consistent with being visible.