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Primer

United States

2004

77 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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DIR Shane Carruth

PROD Shane Carruth

SCR Shane Carruth

DP Shane Carruth

CAST Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Carrie Crawford, Jay Butler, John Carruth, Juan Tapia

ED Shane Carruth

PROD DES Shane Carruth

MUSIC Shane Carruth

SOUND Shane Carruth

Sundance (Dramatic Competition): Grand Jury Prize, Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, Toronto

Synopsis

The debut feature from filmmaker Shane Carruth – who wrote, directed, photographed, edited, scored, and stars – Primer is a psychological sci-fi thriller about a group of four tech entrepreneurs. Toiling away in a garage, the quartet have successfully created error-checking systems for their clients. But their recent work seems to have created an unexpected and seemingly impossible side-effect. Suddenly, two members of the group realize they are in possession of a device that can double, or perhaps even quadruple, the space-time continuum of anything that enters it. What at first seems like a windfall of astronomical proportions eventually proves to be much more than they bargained for, as the duo attempt to manipulate time to their financial – and emotional – benefit. Also starring Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, and Carrie Crawford, Primer premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the coveted Grand Jury Prize for dramatic film.

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Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth (born 1972) is an American film writer, director, editor, producer, actor and musician.

Carruth was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He attended Stephen F. Austin State University.

Carruth wrote, directed, produced, performed one of the two main roles, and composed the music for his independent film Primer, which was honored at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Prize. Carruth, a former software engineer with an undergraduate degree in mathematics, utilized his technical knowledge on the project.

David Sullivan, one of the leads in Primer, claimed on his Twitter that “Shane Carruth’s next project, A Topiary, is in the early stages of pre-production.” Filmmaker Rian Johnson also posted: “Shane… has a mind-blowing sci-fi script. Let’s all pray to the movie-gods that he gets it made soon.” In 2010, several news sources reported that A Topiary is in the works, and that the script is written. There is already a website for the movie… read more

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Makaila

18Feb12

Mind-fuckery.

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lasers8oclock

10Jan12

Easy enough to understand up until the last 15 minutes. Everything seems to happen very quickly then with very little explanation or time to soak in what's happening. This section could have been elaborated upon instead of the lengthy intro. Very cool film, though.

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Nathan.

10Jan12

Whoa, this was pretty damn good. It brought up a pretty great dilemma too, really got me thinking, loved it.

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