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Edit: Spin (2004) 15-minute short film

I've tried for years to track this one down and will be genuinely impressed if anyone can figure this out.

It was about a bicyclist riding his bike down a hill, having a car start to pull out in front of him, think to look the other way halfway through, and hit his brakes. The bicyclist still hits the car, but he skims over the hood mostly unharmed, instead of hitting the flat side of the car, which could have easily killed him.

He starts thinking about the incident and realizes that due to quantum mechanics, he actually did get hit by that car on the flat side and die, because in another universe, the other driver didn't look and brake at the last second, because that neuron didn't fire in his brain. He starts to realize that this is happening all the time in every moment for all things.

It was a really beautiful film that was able to introduce the concept of the multi-verse with a really simple example. The final scene of the film shows the driving towards an intersection and the camera view split to reveal him driving both ways. The cameras follow both paths and they start to split as well. This goes on and shows a massive branching scene where his car is going in all sorts of directions at once with a grid of hundreds of different directions he could have taken.

I remember seeing the film around the year 2006. I'm pretty sure it was airing on IFC, but this could be wrong. I can't clearly remember if it was a short film or a movie, but my memory has it as a short film, something like 30 minutes. I saw it in 2006, but I don't necessarily know that it came out in 2006. I remember it looking like it was filmed with relatively modern equipment, likely after 2000.

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[–] pairwise@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

That description sounds exact. You might have found it! Nothing coming up on YouTube, so I’ll have to report back after some deeper searching.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is definitely the one upon further research, but still nowhere to watch it. The high seas don’t even seem to offer this one. IA does have their site, though: https://web.archive.org/web/20130504190150/http://spin-film.com/

[–] pairwise@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Longshot, but try texting the number for David Marmor listed on the site. Next steps would be to contact the film festivals listed.

I hope you find a place to watch,

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I’ll try them tomorrow at a more reasonable hour. Good suggestion.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

He has a Twitter that he's never posted to: https://x.com/dmarmor

He also has a mixcloud, but also doesn't seem very active: https://www.mixcloud.com/david-marmor/listens/

Dark Sky Films carried one of his other films and may have contact info (or be willing to pass on a message from you): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGzb01GrsxQ

He also gave a number of interviews about 1BR and, again, the writers may be willing to pass on a message or give you contact info:

https://razs-midnight-macabre.com/2020/12/07/an-interview-with-david-marmor/

https://www.shockya.com/news/2020/06/02/exclusive-interview-david-marmor-1br-blu-ray-dvd-release/

https://www.moviemaker.com/1br-abandoned-save-the-cat-completely-for-their-apartment-horror-thriller-podcast/

https://cinema.heavymag.com.au/1br-david-marmor-interview/

https://www.flyfidelity.co.uk/2020/10/fractured-listens-podcast-david-marmor.html?m=1

https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2020-06-14-interview-with-david-marmor-about-1br-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode

https://mattsmoviereviews.net/podcast-305.html

Something I did note is that the latest info I've found for him is from 2020. It's possible that world events that year may have led him to choose a different path in life (as it did for many of us). But it's also possible that he died in the pandemic.

[–] ryokimball@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm probably wrong but it feels like you're badly describing Vanilla Sky

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I wish it were that easy. That one sits on my shelf. In line with many others of similar themes, but not this evasive little minx of a movie…

[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

There was a pseudo documentary I vaguely remember… along this premise… but I don’t know if it used a cyclist metaphor anywhere... “What the BLEEP do we know?!” (2004)

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

OK good, but now tie it into a molly pocket IP we need to roll out before we lose the rights to Sony.