"First Surface"

Created by: Ted Lyman
When: 1 pm Tuesday April 1 2003
Where: HCC Campus Theater, Palm Avenue and 14th Street

"First Surface" is about a young boy with memories of his entire lifetime, an affliction with peculiar symptoms.

He cannot separate his remembrances from reality and finds himself appearing at random moments in his own history. Events lose chronology and go backwards and forwards without logic.

He senses two photographs, one of a waterfall, the other of his family, hold the key to his disease. These images gradually reveal themselves, first showing bursts of movement , then appearing as a complete motion picture scene, and, finally, becoming a massive, cycling grid which covers the wall of his room.

As his recognition of this sequence evolves, the boy comes to understand his condition and the unique perspective it affords on his existence.