Primer
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Tue 24 January 2006 // 21:00
Carruth / 2004 / USA / 77 mins / 35mm / cert 12A
(Tues 24th / 9pm / £2)
A bold debut feature about the practicalities and problems with the concept of time travel. Two idealistic engineers stumble upon a device that can not only bend and affect gravity (as they had aspired to invent) but also linear time. The audience are thrown full-kilter into a fast and furious yet beautifully understated sci-fi drama where ambition swiftly leads to distrust, and subplots literally begin to overlap and repeat.
There is nothing basic about this techno-babble heavy film and it will need to be revisited in order to make complete sense, but it makes for a very satisfying mental workout compared to your usual multi-million dollar action flick with only a wisp of a plot. It cost Shane Carruth (star, writer, director, editor) only $7000 to make, and is an incredible achievement. Dense, sinister, delicate and mind blowing: clear your schedule, turn your phone off and you won't ever look back.
(Tues 24th / 9pm / £2)
A bold debut feature about the practicalities and problems with the concept of time travel. Two idealistic engineers stumble upon a device that can not only bend and affect gravity (as they had aspired to invent) but also linear time. The audience are thrown full-kilter into a fast and furious yet beautifully understated sci-fi drama where ambition swiftly leads to distrust, and subplots literally begin to overlap and repeat.
There is nothing basic about this techno-babble heavy film and it will need to be revisited in order to make complete sense, but it makes for a very satisfying mental workout compared to your usual multi-million dollar action flick with only a wisp of a plot. It cost Shane Carruth (star, writer, director, editor) only $7000 to make, and is an incredible achievement. Dense, sinister, delicate and mind blowing: clear your schedule, turn your phone off and you won't ever look back.