Living in a Reversed World (1958)

  • NR
  • 01/02/1958 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 11m

Overview

Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several weeks wears special glasses that reverse right and left and up and down. Unexpectedly, these macabre and somehow surrealist experiments reveal that our perception of these aspects of vision is not of an optical nature and cannot be relied on, while the unfortunate, Kafkaesque subject stubbornly struggles through a morass of continuous failures.

Theodor Wrismann

Director

Ivo Kohler

Director

Cast

James J. Gibson's headshot

James J. Gibson

Narrator

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