I’m sure writer-director Glut understands Time Is Just a Place–and I’m sure he explained it to friends and family who watched it when he made it–but there’s no explanation in the short itself.
There are a couple rocket ships traveling through space. They’re apparently time rockets. One ends up in prehistoric times, the other in the modern day. The prehistoric rocket pilot encounters some dinosaurs–Place has a big fight between a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a stegosaurus–while the other rocket somehow causes the destruction of the planet Earth.
That final sequence is really effective, though Glut appears to have just broken up a disk.
The opening few shots suggests some kind of lyrical film, with the next few minutes suggesting a lot of riffing on time travel. Sadly, Glut delivers neither. Once the dinosaurs show up, he eschews most abstract ambition.
That dinosaur fight’s bitching though.
CREDITS
Written, edited, photographed and directed by Donald F. Glut.
This has got to be The Stop Button’s first use of the word “bitching,” right?
I believe so.
But there’s really no other word to describe a teenager’s stop motion dinosaur fight in a short he made for a science project.