Across the Sea of Time 3D
1995, G, 51 min.
Directed by Stephen Low, Starring Peter Reznick.

ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME tells the compelling story of an 11-year-old Russian stowaway, Tomas, who arrives in New York hoping to meet up with a branch of his family who came to America decades earlier. Armed with a stereopticon (a primitive precursor to today’s 3D) and a handful of photographs from the turn of the century that an relative sent back to Russia, he suddenly encounters the sights and sounds of New York as it is today.

This article appears in January 30 • 2009.

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