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George Bassler’s Perpetual Motion Machine

Genre

Narrative-Fiction

Directed By

Berny Hi

Date: Jan 2014
Length: 00:03:30
Process: Colour
Country: Canada
Language: English
Shooting Format: HD
Sound Format: Music, Voice-Over

Synopsis

Following his family’s untimely demise, prairie homesteader George Bassler bizarrely spends 1945 crafting a Perpetual Motion machine uncannily echoing similarly named inventor Johann Bessler’s 1712 invention, the Perpetuum Mobile. Based on actual events, this film explores obsession with employing mechanical devices to trick time and make everything last forever.

Tags

death, found objects, history, invention, machines, motion, prairie, puppetry, radiation, Saskatchewan, time

Credits

Director
Berny Hi
Producer
Berny Hi
Screenplay
Berny Hi
Cinematographer
Berny Hi
Editor
Berny Hi
Sound Editor
Berny Hi
Sound Mix
Berny Hi
Music
Jason Cullimore
Narrator
Berny Hi

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