Timecrimes / Primer
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Summer Sci-Fi. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Timecrimes (2007)
A relaxing time at their rural vacation home becomes a waking nightmare for a couple when the husband (Karra Elejalde) stumbles into a nearby research facility and ends up accidentally transported an hour back in time. It’s a short temporal hop that nevertheless sets off an increasingly disastrous chain of events that Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo reveals with ever-mounting suspense and tension.
35mm, color, in Spanish with English subtitles, 92 min. Director: Nacho Vigalondo. Screenwriter: Nacho Vigalondo. With: Karra Elejalde, Nacho Vigalondo, Candela Fernández.
Primer (2004)
Writer-director Shane Carruth’s debut feature transforms the modern myth of the tinkering entrepreneur into a tight sci-fi thriller that works as a sharp metaphor for the dangers of technocapitalism. Working in his garage, Aaron (Carruth) and his friend Abe (David Sullivan) stumble onto the secret of time travel but in attempting to exploit it, quickly find themselves grappling with the dire unintended consequences of their invention. Though dense with technical explication, the story nevertheless zips along as economically as Carruth’s own low-budget inventiveness which earned him the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance where it premiered.
35mm, color, 77 min. Director: Shane Carruth. Screenwriter: Shane Carruth. With: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan.
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