Before Kermit was born. A damningly aesthetic and unusual short film from the inventor of the Muppet Show Jim Henson, who in the mid-60s decided to indulge in experimental cinema and quite succeeded in this direction. “A Piece of Time” is a futuristic novel from the life of a guy in various historical hypostases (our days, past centuries and even the Stone Age), where the central line is the thought – except for the form, nothing in the relationship between a man / woman changes through the centuries. Office plankton, club meetings, fucks and food absorption – all as it was a hundred and a thousand years ago with the same result – everything will end in the ground, and each of us will be flushed into the toilet.
Henson’s work is accompanied by a winding musical accompaniment and original editing, during which the director/actor had to sweat a lot to try out different costumes in the same plot situations. It was funny, dynamic, and sometimes sexy. Very decent work, which more than others in 1966 deserved to win an Oscar.
The verdict. Winking Jim Henson has yet to come up with Kermit's frog, but has already shown extraordinary potential. I would recommend reading it.
7 out of 10