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Living in a Reversed World

  • January 1958
  • 11mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Theodor Wrismann,

    Ivo Kohler,

    Starring

    James J. Gibson,

    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.