03:00min, 16:9, stereo, 2017
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A parable about time and responsibility.
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Slow and steady wins the race! This year I already mended a pair of Shoes; and will not start with the next pair until this naughty Taylor Hampel will have darned my sunday trousers.
Hello, master taylor Hampel! When am I supposed to put on my sunday trousers?
Oh, hold your horses! Just yesterday, I sewed a seam. I am going to rest now until that slacker of a bricklayer will have build a new tailor’s workshop for me.
Master bricklayer Meier! By when will you be ready with my new workshop? Why should I lay a brick every day?
Rather it is the Mayors turn to start his official acts! I’ll get there when I get there!
I did a lot of official acts lately and will not act until my dawdling wife will have cooked my dinner.
Always put off till tomorrow what you can do today!
No, at first it is the taylor’s turn to sew. But before, the bricklayer starts to lay bricks.
I wouldn’t dream of it!
I never start first!
Well, as I said in the beginning, slow and steady wins the race!
Translation: Norbert Riechmann
A parable.