“As part of the promotion for Sam Klemke’s Time Machine I’ve been asking Sam to interview fellow ‘time travellers’ – people who have used recording technology to document large portions of their lives in interesting ways. We just made a film where Sam talks with Noah Kalina (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4228876/?ref_=ext_shr_tw_vi#lb-vi3336745497) the famous Youtube star who photographed himself every day for 14 years. They ponder the idea that they have both created ‘life selfies’ – extended snapshots of their lives, which is something we might all be able to do know we have recording devices on our phones. More recently Sam interviewed Jeremiah McDonald – who had a viral hit with his film ‘A conversation with my 12-year-old self’.

I remember seeing this film when it came out – and I was blown away by how brilliantly it was put together and the foresight this 12-year-old kid had. There is something quite profound and moving about the film. Sam Klemke had also created his own conversation with his future self – so it seemed a natural fit that these two should talk. Maybe what’s amazing about these two is that they were using a home recording in a time when it was harder to access and harder to use. It makes you wonder, given the access to recording technology today, that in the future we will be seeing all kinds of home movies that span a person’s entire lifetime and that play with time and memory in interesting ways.”

–Matthew Bate, Director