When a filmmaker goes home to interview an old professor, he finds a very different man from the one he remembered. The suave, handsome, chain-smoking teacher whose lectures captivated students is now obsessed with time and order. He has taught psychology at the same college for 48 years, 6 months, and 3 days. His commute to work takes 17 minutes. He holds two Guinness world records: one for the largest collection of talking clocks in the world, over 1,006, and another for the longest uninterrupted series of figure eights on a personal transporter, in under 2 minutes. Told in interviews, animation, and re-enactments, “Forever Professor” is both a portrait of a brilliant eccentric and a film about time, in all its glory and banality.
When a filmmaker goes home to interview an old professor, he finds a very different man from the one he remembered. The suave, handsome, chain-smoking teacher whose lectures captivated students is now obsessed with time and order. He has taught psychology at the same college for 48 years, 6 months, and 3 days. His commute to work takes 17 minutes. He holds two Guinness world records: one for the largest collection of talking clocks in the world, over 1,006, and another for the longest uninterrupted series of figure eights on a personal transporter, in under 2 minutes. Told in interviews, animation, and re-enactments, “Forever Professor” is both a portrait of a brilliant eccentric and a film about time, in all its glory and banality.
Directors: Mika Johnson
Writers: Aaron Labaree
Producers: Mika Johnson
Key cast: Mark McKinley
Categories:
Student project: No
Completion date: 2016-03-10
Shooting format:
Aspect ratio: 16.9
Film color: Color
First-time filmmaker: No
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