TIME PASSANGER

CAST

RILEY (YOUNGER/OLDER) The protagonist & narrator

TIME PASSANGER

SCENE ONE: INT. HER BEDROOM

(Riley)

[SHE STUGGLES TO SET UP A LOW-QUALITY CAMERA, PROCEEDS TO STARE

BLANKLY INTO THE LENSE BEFORE BEGINNING HER READING OFF A PIECE
OF PAPER]

MUSIC: COMES IS AS SHE BEGINS TO TALK

I am a mourner, I live the majority of my present in the past, reminiscing on moments in time
longing to make them last.

[FLAHSBACK SHOTS OF GENRAL LIFE COME IN, PROCEEDING TO FLICKER]

SCENE TWO:

(Riley)

Stretching out the seconds that have gone by to fill up the minutes that are imminent,

the cycle repeats I spend my days sentenced to imprisonment,

[REOSNATING VIDEOS FOUND ONLINE COME IN, FLASHING ON THE SCREEN]

held in captivity of my mind for I cannot escape the thought that to repeat is impossible,

so, you mean to say that all those days were just disposable? A one-time phenomenon never to
recur,

my mind aches my heart yearns but of course the earth it still turns.

[ATMOSPHERIC AI CLIPS]

SCENE THREE:

(Riley)

Though now quicker than ever

is the world moving fast for you as-well?

[INSERT LOYLE CARNER PERFORMANCE, ALONGSIDE ATMOSPHERIC AI
CLIPS]

the months are more like weeks

yesterday was sunny today it pours - from my eyes… there are now tear drops on my cheeks.

[CRYING CLOSE UP, TEAR DROP SPLASH, OCEAN CLIPS]

Each one carrying the pain of my inability to retain the minute details of each individual day.

[FLASHBACK SHOTS CONTINUE]

I wish I had a remote, okay it sounds cliché but to pause rewind, repeat and relive every split
second from back when I was a kid.

[CHILDHOOD PHOTOS FLASH UP/ FLICKER ON THE SCREEN]

SCENE FOUR:

(Riley)

People tell me I should stop, stand still, take it in, breathe in the moment before I am exhaling the
memory,

Don’t let the world pass you by they say

at least not without remaining conscious throughout.

Don’t worry I do, forever in the knowledge that one day soon I’ll be grieving this time, time I
wish to hold tight making sure not to let it slip through the fingers of mine.

SCENE FIVE:

(Riley)

I cried when I put on my school uniform for the last time, a 5-year ritual that came so natural,
now the grey and green tie sits stuffed in my draw a mere representation of all the laughs and
detentions.

The form time gossips hang in my wardrobe up my blazer sleeve,

the art lessons marked by the paint on my coat that won’t leave.

[REONSATING CAM CORDER SHOTS APPEAR]

SCENE SIX:

(Riley)
 When I left the gates for the final time my stomach felt empty another piece of me abandoned;
although I guess it’s just what happens, dropping elements of myself as the clock ticks on, if it
were to freeze perhaps I would be whole.

[LEAVERS DAY SHIRT SIGNING SCENE]

SCENE SEVEN:

(Riley)

I hate feeling nostalgic it’s not disaffection for the recollections but rather their absence and
incapacity to ever be the ‘now’ again, for the now is forever changing, tomorrow never comes but
neither does yesterday I just have to hope and pray that my mind doesn’t run out of storage,

[COMPUTER CIPS FOUND ONLINE]

How else would I be held hostage? To the ‘year ago today’s’ that I live through,

the ‘this time last week’s’ that I tell true.

SCENE EIGHT:

(Riley)

Sometimes I find it strange that there is a yesterday, a month ago, a year ago, several in-fact, but I
am reminded by the scribbles on the wall that I did when I was little, I guess I couldn’t find the
paper... or I just wanted to be a rebel;

[RECOVERED CHILDHOOD VIDEOS ON SCREEN]

An indication of life that went before, because it’s funny how much you can forget when caught
up in keeping score, the candles that I blow out each year mark 365 days crammed with thoughts,
thoughts that 10 years from now I certainly won’t recall.

On my sixth birthday I blew out the candles and wished for a Barbie

[*FILMED ON OLDER CAMERA* YOUNGER ACTRESS SAT IN THE GARDEN,

BLOWS OUT HER BRITHDAY CAKE CANDLES]

[INSERT RECOVERED CHILDHOOD VIDEOS AS OVERLAY]

This year, on my sixteenth I blew them out in hopes that when the smoke cleared I would be six
again, and sitting with my friends in the garden while my mum brought the cake in.

SCENE NINE:

(Riley)
[*FILMED ON NEWER CAMERA* TRNASITIONS INTO OLDER ACTRESS DOING
THE SAME TO SHOW CONTRAST]

Forgetting is a painful thing,

but remembering is even harder,

SCENE TEN:

(Riley)

The spitefulness of seconds

The meanness of minutes

[REOSNATING VIDEOS FOUND ONLINE]

Time satisfies its appetite with present

while my stomach rumbles for past

I should learn move on, respect the non-existent but not live in it for it is gone. Never to return

[FLAHSBACK VIDEOS CUT OUT, CUTS BACK TO RILEY SITTING IN HER ROOM]

MSUIC: CUTS OUT

So for now a shall remain stranded within the limbo of yesterday and tomorrow.

[RILEY REACHES FOR THE CAMERA TO TURN IT OFF, WE WATCH HER

STRUGGLE TO END THE VLOG UNTIL THE SCREEN GOES BLACK]