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A special-effects wizard gets the break of his life when he's hired by a movie studio, but there's more to this particular studio than he realizes. Jittlov, a real special-effects expert, plays himself in this personally financed production. Although brimming with inside jokes and references, this self-indulgence succeeds with its enthusiasm and ambition, despite being rather obviously self-produced. Unique special effects make it memorable.
The Wizard of Speed and Time is the ultimate Bolex-in-the-backyard, Cinefex buff’s dream. It is a virtual one-man show for director, writer, designer, effects man and actor Mike Jittlov
A special-effects wizard gets the break of his life when he's hired by a movie studio, but there's more to this particular studio than he realizes. Jittlov, a real special-effects expert, plays himself in this personally financed production. Although brimming with inside jokes and references, this self-indulgence succeeds with its enthusiasm and ambition, despite being rather obviously self-produced. Unique special effects make it memorable.
The Wizard of Speed and Time is the ultimate Bolex-in-the-backyard, Cinefex buff’s dream. It is a virtual one-man show for director, writer, designer, effects man and actor Mike Jittlov. Jittlov first demonstrated his homemade special effects wizardry in various shorts that aired on the Disney Channel in the early 1980s and created the green-suited Wizard of Speed and Time for a special, The Wizard of Speed and Time , that aired in 1979. The character became embedded in fan memory, largely due to Jittlov’s numerous convention appearances as the character. Jittlov then brought the character to life in this film.
The film displays an extraordinary degree of inventivity on Jittlov’s part – from the tiny little stop-motion robots that putter about his kitchen to the stop-action chase sequences and hand-drawn animation to the flights into orbit and car chases aboard a motorized briefcases. Jittlov is someone with a rare love of what they do, which clearly shows up in the wondrousness and the attention to minutiae in the final product on screen.
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