Inside Time

 

   

    Award-winning filmmaker Jason Young has harnessed music and image to shape an artful visual essay on the experience of time through the life of this legendary bank robber”

 – Montreal Gazette

 

 

Golden Sheaf

 -  YORKTON FILM FESTIVAL

 

Official Selection - VANCOUVER

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

 

Official Selection - ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVAL

 

Official Selection -  MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL

Bank robbers have long been romanticized in Western culture, but few have been able to tell their own story with as much self awareness as Stephen Reid. This absorbing documentary is about an extraordinary man, a notorious member of the "Stopwatch Gang," who once lived out the crazy, frantic life of the outlaw bandit. Now sentenced for eighteen years to a prison cell, Reid has a lot of time to reflect on the journey that brought him to this moment. Inside Time is a cogent expression of being acutely conscious of the here and now. Reid is, in effect, "doing time," but the experience of imprisonment has forced an intense spiritual awareness of the preciousness of life. Instead of racing against or fighting time, whether through heroin addiction or robbing banks, he is now compelled to contemplate the present. Reid's story is gracefully set against vivid images that speak to the different rhythms of his experience. Indeed, viewers will find themselves drawn deeply into this film, willingly losing their sense of time.

 

Directed by: Jason Young

Producer: Annette Clarke

Editor: Lawrence Jackman

Cinematography: Jay Ferguson

Sound: Arthur McKay

Executive Producer: Kent Martin

 

Watch Film: https://www.nfb.ca/film/inside_time