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Unpossible (short film)

submitted by Kevlar

1 decade 4 years 2 months 1 week ago

Description via Vimeo:

A paranoid inventor goes to any lengths to protect his new time machine. When things go catastrophically wrong, he is forced to use the machine in a desperate bid to put things right. A ridiculous sci-fi conundrum.

Written, directed & edited by Robin King
Starring David Crow & Chris Hayward
Director of Photography Mirko Beutler
Camera & Lighting Assistant Amy Newstead
Sound & Music Nat Saunders

This film was written, shot & edited in seven days as part of the second round of selection for the US TV show 'On The Lot' (a kind of X-Factor for film directors). I submitted my first film "Ten Thousand Pictures of You" (vimeo.com/2554266) to the competition, and got a call one night from Dreamworks saying that I should make a new film in one week, and that it and my submitted film would be watched by Steven Spielberg...

The film was written in 2 days, prepped in 2 days, shot in 1 day and edited in 2 days. (All while I also had to get a visa application ready in case I got through!) Apparently Spielberg liked them, but I didn't quite make the cut for the show proper.

Shot on a Z1, edited in FCP. Minimal colour correction and the split screen work was with the 8-point garbage removal tool.

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me fail english?

ant

*nsfw for sh*t.

This video has been flagged as being Not Suitable For Work - declared nsfw by ant.

Interesting. I love time travel stuff

This is a neat play on an Einstein idea. The basic tenants of relativity make the nature of the universe like a machine. As such, the entirety of the universe has already happened; all existence has been fated. As such, there is no real problem with events from any one time influencing events of a non-adjacent time. Meaning events from the future could be directly responsible for events in the past. This eliminates a bunch of the different time-paradox problems. However, it creates a new one that I don't know that he ever addressed, and that is the snowball of extra energy and matter for all deltas.

So, let us suppose a hypothetical universe that exists for 10 seconds and is only composed of one particle. At time 10, we send that one particle back to T = 1. And time 9.99999 we send back another particle to T=1 ect ect. You see the problem, all the sudden you have a universe at time 1 with near infinite particles. Even if we correct for paradox by having all particles return the exact moment they arrive so that our universe stays consistent in the future states with only one particle, we still have the problem that at T=1 the universe was infinitely energetic seemingly violating the first law of thermodynamics.

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