Rewind to the ’90s this week with The Timekeepers of Eternity, the experimental reworking of the 1995 TV miniseries The Langoliers, now available in appropriate VHS form.
You can order a copy of The Timekeepers of Eternity on VHS now, complete with handmade VHS covers.
Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos transforms the adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1988 novella into a whole new film through hypnotic black-and-white collage animation.
No VCR? That’s ok. You can watch the film in its entirety, for free, right here.
In The Timekeepers of Eternity, “Mr. Toomey has an important business meeting in Boston, but he dreads the thought of arriving. The only relief from the screams of his father in his traumatic dreams of childhood is obsessively tearing paper – ripping it into strips. When he wakes on his flight, there seems to have been a tear in reality as most of the other passengers have vanished. When the survivors land, the airport is eerily empty of life, like a blank page. Something is coming to rip this weird paper purgatory of the mind apart – Monsters only Mr. Toomey can confront.”
Bronson Pinchot stars as Mr. Craig Toomey.
Maragkos transforms footage from Stephen King’s The Langoliers into a paper nightmare. The feature isn’t just a trimmed-down cut but an entire, painstaking reworking that shapes The Langoliers into something wholly different and unique. It makes for a separate feature that can stand on its own or serve as an engaging, experimental companion piece, which makes for an easy recommendation this spooky season.
I previously reviewed the audacious feature out of the Chattanooga Film Festival in 2022. I wrote of the film “The Timekeepers of Eternity is an ambitious, unexpected experiment in remixing art with multiple techniques and mediums. It’s a singular vision and a complete story that mines new ideas from a nearly three-decade-old made-for-TV miniseries.”