--- title: Peter Emshwiller Interviews Self 38 Years Later: Video description: The beginnings of a bizarre, brilliant little film canonical: https://time.com/4104698/man-interviews-self-38-years-later/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-09T16:15:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:44.192Z og:title: Watch a Young Man Interview Himself 38 Years Later og:description: The beginnings of a bizarre, brilliant little film og:url: https://time.com/4104698/man-interviews-self-38-years-later/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Young Man Interview Himself 38 Years Later twitter:description: The beginnings of a bizarre, brilliant little film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Young Man Interview Himself 38 Years Later by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 9, 2015 4:15 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 9, 2015 4:15 PM UTC When Peter “Stoney” Emshwiller was 18, he sat down to pretend he was interviewing his future self. With the help of his filmmaker father, he recorded tons of footage as he lobbed questions to the invisible alternate version of himself. Now, 38 years later, he has finally sat down to answer the questions and complete the second half of his project. Emshwiller has set up a [fundraising page](https://www.rockethub.com/projects/61287-later-that-same-life) to raise money to complete the full film, titled “Later That Same Life.” (He calls it a “time-travel talk show.”) He has already surpassed his original goal of $10,000 — but if he reaches his “stretch goal” of $15,000, he says he’ll be able to digitally restore the original footage for better sound and image quality. The clip above is a glimpse into what the full film will offer — and it’s already quite intriguing. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4104698/man-interviews-self-38-years-later/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4104698/man-interviews-self-38-years-later/"},"headline":"Watch a Young Man Interview Himself 38 Years Later","datePublished":"2015-11-09T16:15:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:44.192Z","description":"The beginnings of a bizarre, brilliant little film","url":"https://time.com/4104698/man-interviews-self-38-years-later/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4104698/man-interviews-self-38-years-later/","name":"Watch a Young Man Interview Himself 38 Years Later"}}]}] ```