You’re probably familiar with the concept of the bucket list: a collection of goals, dreams, and aspirations that you would like to accomplish within your lifetime. But what if you only had a meagre handful of hours to fit everything into? What would a housefly’s bucket list look like?
This is the absurdist, almost Cronenbergian premise of Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz’s new game, Time Flies. “The fly is so meaningless, so annoying,” says Frei. “To try and find meaning with such a small thing in this world – there’s poetry in that.”