De tijd op je hielen (2003)

In Time on your Heels filmmaker Sherman De Jesus takes an intimate look at old people and tries to catch a glimpse of what the world looks like as you get older. The film consists of four parts: The Grand Disappearing Trick; Saving your Skin; No Way Back; Conquering Time. For two years, several men and women from all walks of life were followed, sometimes for months on end, to find out how they and their surroundings cope with growing older. Time on your Heels takes the viewer to the threshold of those moments when we are alive to the fact that our life is finite. Suddenly everything seems foreign and you can feel as if you are living in a foreign country. You realise your body is no longer what it once was. You have a growing fear that there is no way back. And finally the devastating realisation that it's not time that is passing, but you. Passing on...