150 Word Review: 'The Timekeepers Of Eternity' (2021)

Looks good on paper

Photo: Aristotelis Maragkos

Timekeepers of Eternity is an experimental film by Aristotelis Maragkos that upcycles The Langoliers, a forgettable 1995 made-for-TV adaptation of a Stephen King story starring top-tier minor leaguers, including David Morse, Dean Stockwell, and Bronson Pinchot, as a loudmouth stockbroker.

The low-budget mini-series follows a group of people who wake up on an empty plane that has flown through a rift in time. As this is King, there’s a clairvoyant child, a psycho with a knife, and a mystery novelist who explains the plot. The title monsters are Pac-Men from hell.

Maragkos cut the three-hour snoozefest down to 64 minutes. But it’s his flipbook-style animation that transforms what was 90s dreck into surreal cinematic origami. Maragkos printed each frame of The Langoliers on paper and refilmed every nanosecond, crinkling and rending pages along the way. Edits become tears in reality. Faces rip apart. The world crumples like a paper ball.

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Photo: Aristotelis Maragkos

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