The Blasted Space

“Dis­lo­ca­tion in time, time sig­na­tures, time as a philo­soph­i­cal con­cept, and slav­ery to time are some of the themes touched up­on in this nine-​minute, ex­per­i­men­tal film, which was writ­ten, di­rect­ed, and pro­duced by Jim Hen­son-​and starred Jim Hen­son! Screened for the first time at the Mu­se­um of Mod­ern Art in May of 1965, Time Piece en­joyed an eigh­teen-​month run at one Man­hat­tan movie the­ater and was nom­i­nat­ed for an Acade­my Award for out­stand­ing short sub­ject.”