Searching for his lost clock, a watchmaker loses himself in memory.nThe Reality Clock is an experimental animated portrait of an elderly watchmaker as he struggles to accept the influence of early stage Dementia on his identity and sense of time. Shot in full stereoscopic 3D, using time-lapse photography, pixelation, live-action, and stop-motion animation, The Reality Clock immerses the viewer in the internal experience of the character, expressed through metaphors of a clock, house, and morphing landscapes.nAfter confusing a simple memory evaluation, The Reality Comprehension Clock Test, the character misplaces his favorite pocket watch. As he embarks on a journey for the missing watch, memories overlap with present reality, distorting his sense of time and place. As he grasps for his identity, The Reality Clock questions who and what the raw essence of a person is when stripped bare of new memories and rational lucidity.nThe inspiration for The Reality Clock grew out of Amanda’s conversations with elderly patients with Dementia, when she volunteered for a hospice organization from 2005 – 2007. Realizing that most films portray Dementia from the point-of-view of the caregiver, Amanda intended to explore what the experience might feel like for the patient.nAmanda used varying cinematic techniques to emphasize the character’s subjective reality and play with metaphors inherent in the materials — a subtly animated puppet in a dollhouse juxtaposed with stuttering photographic and live-action memories. She decided to create the film in 3D after having read an autobiographical account by an author with early-stage Dementia who described some of his hallucinations and memories as having the quality of depth associated with 3D pictures. Amanda intended to experiment with how stereoscopic 3D could be used as an additional art-design element to support immersive experimental and emotional storytelling.n