the story of a twice grown boy
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First Surface, a film by Ted Lyman, is a film about a twelve year old boy who has already lived his own future. He finds himself surfacing at abitrary moments in his own lifetime, a disease which destroys his ability to live in linear time. He senses that two photographs which hang in his bedroom hold the key to his condition and, as the movie proceeds, these images gradually reveal themselves by bursting into motion and, finally, form a massive grid on the wall. The resolution of the film is embedded in what happens to this construction and in the boy's reaction to this event. The picture above is a still from the scene when the grid first appears. |
| The role of the boy is played by Andrew Lyman-Clarke. Andrew is now twenty years old, and a media maker in his own right. |
| e-mail the filmmaker: Theodore.Lyman@uvm.edu |