The fact that he spent 13 months making an under six minute movie filmed entirely on a park bench is almost as astonishing to me as an actual time machine.
I'd say it paid off. A short film is less forgiving than a feature-length film. You feel every missed beat that much more. I'm glad he took the time to discover the rhythm of the story.
@@scotey you gotta love how they both die over and over for each other🤣🤣🤣 if I had that machine I would arrange to meet you and just start hitting the button and let you deal with my corpses🤣🤣🤣
@@AVDevon I was going off of the posted date of the video, but after digging a little further I see that you are correct. This video is in fact older than their skit. I stand corrected.
To me, this film is the literal analogy of "I wish I could go back and change/fix what I did," but we tend to get lost in the spiral of "what could I had done better" that we often abuse our mental thought and physical health over some alternative outcome that'll never happen, wasting our life in the process.
I watched it twice in a row cause the scenario is good, the acting is good, the music is good, the editing is good, the casting is good, everything is good, what a success!
@@AVDevon yeah, it really works, it REALLY works. very crisp, not a wasted second. the acting and the directing combine to make very effective storytelling. Probably most people won't recognize that the real hero of this production is the EDITOR. they will adore the finished product, but they won't realize that this polished gem was the result of expert editing.
Not me. In fact, I replayed it several times before it went missing. By then I had watched enough times to understand the principles of Time Travel and so; built my box and jumped ahead to today. NOW I'm on a Quest to find girls needing spankings.
You can ignore those notes in the description about months of editing. We all know that Devon actually achieved perfection in this film by using an actual 1-minute Time Machine, in the process murdering 743 other Devons and emotionally scarring the same number of Brian Dietzens and Erinn Hayeses. The final version was filmed in a single take.
It also makes no sense. Since it previously only worked on him, and she stayed behind with his dead body. In the ending they break the rules they established..
@@Carewolf how does it not make sense? clearly it works for whoever presses the button, so now theres dimensions where hes going through the same thing she did all those times.
@@Mazikeen8934 Which means she dies, which she knows. I assumed the twist in the end was she let him die to get laid, but breaking the rules of the sketch.
When you realize that she didn't help the traumatized man when she hit the button, but instead further burdened his trauma by dieing in front of him, depriving him from the one positive outcome of all of his deaths thus far.
Yeah, but that's fork 17 of that man. Fork 18, the fork she created one minute before is gonna be very happy. He "restarted" 16 times in his mind, and on the 17th (his view, 18th fork in reality) he succeeded.
That's awesome. Thanks for the backstory. "Vat Of Acid" is literally my favorite episode of Rick and Morty. Excellent writing on both parts. Brian and Erinn played so well of each other too. Kudos Mr Avery.
This short epitomises the incredible talent and dedication of the editing; leaving apart the script, direction and the actors - who were all brilliant. No wonder it took 13 months - this is perfection!
Bro the beat in “I’ve never had a man fight for me before…let alone die for me” is effin genius. Like it wraps up the romcom part so nicely then immediate takes the story further. Writing is great obviously but pulling so much out of this one beat clearly needs hell of a lot from everyone involved.
Also I know you did it first. But your writing uses this time travel concepts wayyyy more satisfyingly than Rick and Mortys and I like Rick and Morty (earlier seasons at least). So kudos. Kinda lost respect for that episode because they just took it almost 100% percent.
Thank you! Most of the heavy lifting (in terms of the comedy beats) was done by the actors, they were amazing. My challenge in the edit was to try to make the whole thing better than the sum of it's parts.
@@killmaidie6469 If you visit the Ko-fi link above, you will a see a screenshot from that Rick and Morty episode and how it compares to a shot in my other short film "Practice Makes Perfect", that's what surprised me the most.
Such a sweet short. We agonize and regret over every little mistake we make, and we wish we could go back and change it, not knowing we're essentially rejecting (or rather, killing) our true, authentic self.
I agree with The Hellsy. I would still be myself even if my past was greatly altered. I don’t know if that’s the case of most people but in my case, I believe it’s mostly big components of my life that defined who I am: My parents, my genes, my family, my country, the education system of my country, the culture of my country, etc. I would likely eventually have become the person I am today regardless of each individual event of my life. I don’t think my identity is the result of a chaotic system. I believe it evolved toward a stable state. I think the different stable states it could have reached are quite similar, and that it would have required great effort, great changes in parameters, to result in a different state. I think it’s cool.
This reminds me of the short play "Sure Thing" from All in The Timing. Both have these short bits of story telling revolving around having little do-overs, that cumulatively add to or change the direction of the story. Great stuff!
I have watched this dozens of times since it first appeared online and it remains one of my favorite short films of all time and IMO one of the best time travel films ever made. Thank you for making it!
Film school nerd here… I agree! There are a few things which make it stand out in the time travel genre. One is that the everything that happened before the guy sits down is completely ignored and fully accepted: how he made the time machine; the fact that it looks completely ridiculous up to labeling it “one minute time machine;” the fact that it works!; the fact that this seems to be the first time he tries it out, and the fact that it’s just one minute of time travel into the past. We as the audience never question any of that. There are so many other time travel and time loop films that start to fall apart or become distracting when the film gives too much attention to the time travel process, DeLorean, hot tub, magic cave. It’s just a red button on a box that goes back a minute. No questions asked! And her explanation is about as simple and clear as any ever given in a sci-fi film. 13 months of editing? Worth every second. It’s as tight and fluid as anything you’ll ever see.
@@LAGreg123It can be interesting if creators try to explain things but often it is not necessary or useful. I rewatched Stargate SG1 recently and noticed that often when encountering the unknown the characters would use the word "somehow"😀 Samantha would simply say that the machine used subspace somehow and we would not question it further. I think creators at some point started to use that word as a joke.
By a strange quirk of fate, a multi-dimensional disturbance in the space-time continuum has now revealed that this was one of the best time travel films ever made.
I think it would be difficult to stretch an idea out into 1.5 to 2 hours of film also. It might end up like this, but with longer dialogue, or maybe there would be B stories. One of the reasons I like short stories is that they do not need a lot of filler and do not need to trap your attention for hours with fluff.
now this is kind of work we try to find in marvels. your few minute movie gave me more Harmons of happiness and satisfaction then any whole normal movie. Superb!
I love Brian, and was delighted to see he was in this. And I loved the film. Thank you for making it (and thanks to those who helped you), and thanks for posting it here for everyone to see.
I also love how you make the start of the movie seem its the first time he's sitting next to her etc, I have a feeling this is atleast his 8th attempt and the movie starts with a good introduction of them both. Just brilliant, gets more entertaining more I watch it.
I loved this film ever since I first watched it several years ago, and have shared it in my philosophy club when we were discussing time travel. I'm so glad you decided to keep it and share the story behind it too. Brilliant work.
Holy sh*t, this is the single most perfect piece film of any length I’ve ever seen. It seemed just *impossibly* perfect, not a frame missing or wasted, the dialog, expressions, framing, everything is keyed to such a pitch that it couldn’t possibly be better. How is something this good even possible? Then I read the back story in the description. Oh, that’s how 😂🤯 Hats off & 3 thumbs up for an amazing creation!
Dave, that is one of the best comments / compliments I have ever read on here. Thank you so much for taking the time to read the notes and for your kind words.
Great film! James is the one pushing the button but if he dies why doesn't everyone die? If there is a reason everyone doesn't die then by hitting the button 20 times he has obviously created 20 continuing parallel universes, essentially committing suicide 20 times but creating 50 some billion new lives. All just to get laid? Yeah, I guess that checks out.
This is a beautifully crafted little gem. The power of strong writing, acting and editing. Simple location, no ludicrous over the top CGI. Just great filmmaking.
My simple mind can’t understand where the energy comes from to create another parallel universe in the one second. Must need a lot of energy to suddenly create all this mass, the stars, planets, moons, dust, people…….do love the video, acting and in awe of the work involved
Suspending disbelief and practical reality can make the experience of fiction and or magic a lot more fun. Or, to the contrary, maybe it's fun to analyze stuff, too!
maybe everytime you create a parallel universe, you simply, also create an identical universe made of antimatter, therefore the process has a net energy consumption of 0.
i appreciate your recounting in the description, was a really fun read and gave a lot of insight into the challenges and difficult decisions you have to make in pursuit of what youre really after
I remember watching this back in 2015 when I was in college. Oh god I don’t even remember how many times I’ve watched it repeatedly just to find that magic that made me fell in love with this 6 mins movie. It’s so good it inspired me to make my own short films for college competitions. Now out of nowhere it popped up on my feed, bringing back all the memories with it. This is literally a piece of art. A master piece. Thank you for making this ❤.
@@shadostorm8375 Whoa, I thought we'd have to wait until after Skynet takes over for time travel to be invented. But if you're in 2025, then maybe the Terminator films aren't the documentaries I thought they were.
I don't know how many times I come back to watch this short since the beginning of it when it had only a few thousand views. I knew from the first moment I watch it that it would blow up some day and it did. Now, even better when I know the background of this short which completes the picture for me. Thanks a lot for your brilliant short Devon. Keep it up.
It's really strange that I'm sure I saw this more than two months ago but here it is TH-cam date says uploaded two months. Did I see it in another dimension?
As a physicist I have often had to point out the philosophical impossibility of time travel as people think of it. The fact that if YOU could go back with your current knowledge it couldn't be the SAME past therefore it must be dimensional travel NOT time travel. This is another very interesting twist on the whole idea. I loved it.
Doesn't HAVE to be dimensional travel. There is nothing that prevents whatever energy patterns and particles that form your memory from spontaneously rearranging to form the new reality. It is simply very unlikely...unless you have a time machine to force it. So the universe just snaps into a new solution to the wave function and keeps right on going. Same reality. Just an updated to incorporate the time travel event. But you are correct. The new solution may possibly incorporate some retrocausality. Still, that seems more likely than the idea that there are multiple copies or many worlds. Fundamentally, nothing says the past has to be immutable.
@@BangkokBubonaglia I have always said, if you travel back in time to tell yourself not to travel back in time, you just damn sure better conserve energy in the process.
@@pauliexcluded1 Iknow what you mean brother, a physicist here too... so difficult to find "that special one" to most of us... hit the button hit the button
Ok, this is the third time this has cycled through my feed, and the third time I've watched. It's still some of the best six minutes of content ever put on TH-cam.
Brian has a very Paul Rudd quality in this but more subtle. Love it. Erinn Hayes is wonderful as ever. One of the best short films I have seen in years. Thank You.
OUTSTANDING! The two actors fit together like a glove, not the one that disappears somewhere in the washing machine of course....I'm still looking for it But a match might appear in Cern ! Good Work Mr. Avery!
What a brilliant story told in 5 minutes! Thanks for the background. Not knowing all what you shared I'd have thought, "oh he got a great idea, they filmed it one weekend, then slapped he film together..." Goodness, you and others put a lot of work into this. I'm so impressed. Again, love the film. I hope it can lead to further projects.
Thank you! It was worth it, to get it right. Ten years later there's only one version that people see, might as well make it the best version it can be.
This movie is how I feel about Star Trek teleporting. Nobody has yet to convince me they aren't just murdering people and making clones of them with full memories on the other side.
Clever, inspiring, ground hog day but in 5 mins! Love how it covers the concept that we all make mistakes but we just have to continue on regardless and that even a 1 minute time machine cannot fix
One of the most underrated short films of all time that has stood the test of time and always will (Without even needing a Time Machine either, on that note).
This short have two plot twists, it broke my first believe about how a short film must create : exposition 90% and a twist at the end, ahahahahah. finally a sharp entertain short with a never ending entertainment !
Honestly, this is one of the best short films I've ever seen. I never get tired of it, and I've watched it probably a dozen times over the last several years.
This is very well done, great story, great acting, funny and well written! Incredible to see what a fun idea and dedication can do with so little budget
incredible piece of work, only 5 minutes but after watching it feels like i know the actors a lot more than just 5 minutes. really enjoyed watching, actually makes me feel truly warm and happy. hope there's more from where that came from.
I enjoy the backstory on putting this together. It's interesting to peak inside the mind of a perfectionist, and hear how you edited it so many times, even down to eliminating single frames. Truly a passion.
I never would have guessed how much work this took to create or it's significance among filmmakers. That just shows my ignorance. What an awesome short film it really goes to show that a film doesn't have to be long to be remarkable and have an impact.
Thank you! Filmmaking is an enjoyable challenge, and even the simplest, tiniest things can sometimes take a really long time. I once worked on a feature film where everyone had to arrive at 6am. Hundreds of extras were dressed and made up, the crew in their hundreds slaved away all day prepping to get a single shot of raising a circus tent during golden hour. When the time arrived the tent mechanism failed and everything had to repeated on a different day. The final shot lasted about ten seconds. I could have shot a whole TV series with how much was spent on that single shot.
@@AVDevon That's crazy! Sometimes we as an audience don't always appreciate the pure insanity that it takes to create what's on our screens. I definitely have a greater appreciation for the creation process. Thanks for the response!
OMG ! Haven't laughed that much since a while now ! Especially when he resets after the "my 5 yo niece likes "science" thing. Thank you, thank you so much for being that funny !
Thank you just this once, You Tube, for your algorithm. What a gem. Amazed I've never seen it before, and it's now in my very short list of YT favourites.
This film is a shrine to execution. Every aspect of production is immaculate. Script perfect. Acting sublime. Editing on point. I couldn't figure out how they managed light over the course of this shoot until I saw the behind-the-scenes shots. Great production team all around. Well done, Devon.
Okay, I have just watched this. My jaw is still on the floor. Literally it's also taken my breath away. BRILLIANT script, editing, production and direction. The acting was superb. I loved every second of every minute of this masterpiece of filmmaking.
Congrats! Really smart and funny. I relate about the time frame. In the very last stages of my short I wrote during COVID to keep me and a friend busy while things were slow. Life comes at us and things take forever. Glad to see the pay off was worth the effort for you!
Saw this quite a while back and was blown away by it. I shared it with loads of people who reacted likewise. It is simply a masterpiece in every way. Great to see it winning praise from the industry.
I second this. It's like watching an amazing story, and then reading the story of how it came to be. Presenting those two things (the story, and the story behind the story) will hopefully inspire other film makers, or anyone pursuing something seemingly insurmountable, to not quit because they only ever see a polished product and not the 13 months this guy, and others, took to make it happen. It's next level, better than any motivational speaker/course mofo could ever do to inspire
This was brilliant - your work and perseverance paid off! The comedic timing is spot on perfection, utilizing the talents of these actors to the utmost! Excelsior!
Hi Devon ! I'm among these lucky chaps who have seen your short the first time it streamed on youtube, almost a decade ago ! It was an absolute blast ! Glad to know a bit more about the bts of the movie. Sad to see that Sploid has closed its channel, making the original video and its comments unaccessible anymore, but great to see you post it again here. Damn, the 2010's were really the golden age of shorts filmmaking in TH-cam. I miss these times !
What a truly refreshing idea, I love the multi dimensional murder box theory. Beautifully shot the lighting was excellent. I’d love to see a full movie of this idea, how he came up with the one minute time machine box and how they moved on from this scene.
@@AVDevon Then you need to get this series made asap, it’s a great idea, I’m guessing it was some government project or a scientist that left it to him
This is based on “Sure Thing” a one-act play by David Ives and apart of a collection of one acts called “All in the Timing” It’s brilliant. Hilarious, soul touching… in “Sure Thing” a couple meets at a coffee shop a bell rings every time they screw up… it’s amazing. Example (paraphrased): Him”What’s a good looking girl sitting around reading on a night like this” Her”Trying to stay away from lines like that” (Ding)
It is not. It is a time loop comedy like many that came before it, most influenced by Groundhog Day and Star Trek. I was not aware "Sure Thing" existed until 3 years after I made this film and several people like yourself insisted it was an exact copy. I was intrigued so I watched it. I did not see any multiple suicides. No button pushes. Just two people and a reset time loop as the only similarities. Can you tell me why the bell rings to create the time reset? Who rings the bell? What are the consequences of the multiple resets? These are answered in my film, and I believe are core to the story and what drives it.
I love this. It’s like the guy in the movie queue in Annie Hall who starts quoting Marshall McLuhan only to have McLuhan suddenly appear to tell him what he’s saying is wrong.
@@AVDevon There are NO original ideas; only original interpretations. Yours is one of the best. Almost every sci-fi/fantasy show from Buffy to Charmed to Red Dwarf to Legends of Tomorrow has done a Time Loop episode. Also films like Happy Death Day. It would have been interesting to see HIS reaction to having a dead female body beside him after her second button push, 'though. Also, there is an unanswered question: since he clearly doesn't know anything about Quantum Physics, then where did he get the One Minute Time Machine from? Physics suggests that Time Travel is only possible as far back as when a Time Machine is first created (which is why we haven't yet met any Time Travellers), so he didn't have time in that minute with the woman to also go back and to find out how to make one to travel back in time to give it to himself.
@@AVDevon I'm not going to argue whether you actually based your story on Ives's one act as Julie mentioned. If you say you weren't aware of it, that's good enough for me (tropes are tropes after all), but claiming that "two people and a reset time loop" are the ONLY similarities is a bit disingenuous. I've directed "Sure Thing" on stage before, and the similarities are strong. The scene begins with several requests to sit with the other person, they progress towards a few botched pick-up lines (with the woman even asking directly in both your short film and the play if he's trying to "pick [her] up"), the focus shifts towards the book that she's reading which the man hasn't read, and it ends with the woman becoming just as invested in getting together with him that she takes over the time resets. Does your story ultimately take a different narrative path than Ives's play? Of course. But hopefully you can at least appreciate the irony of how much similarity there actually *is* in both your stories (more so than Groundhog Day or Trek).
This definitely seems like a rip off, but I could see more than one person coming up with such a story independently. It's a "Cute meet" with a time loop initiated by pressing a bell/button. Sure Thing is better; funnier. "Explaining things" doesn't necessarily make something better. John Carpenter's "Halloween" is better than Rob Zombie's "Halloween."
This is so brilliant and witty. I love how in the end, he is so successful that she not only believes him but also uses it herself. Hilarious. It leaves their future together open to the wildest imagination.
The fact that he spent 13 months making an under six minute movie filmed entirely on a park bench is almost as astonishing to me as an actual time machine.
he commits suicide every time he hits that button
I'd say it paid off. A short film is less forgiving than a feature-length film. You feel every missed beat that much more. I'm glad he took the time to discover the rhythm of the story.
@@scotey you gotta love how they both die over and over for each other🤣🤣🤣
if I had that machine I would arrange to meet you and just start hitting the button and let you deal with my corpses🤣🤣🤣
@@raven4k998 And I would gently caress the cheek of all your lifeless bodies. Or rather, all the different versions of me would. 🤣
@@raven4k998 I prefer to read this assuming you don’t know each other and just wanted to make a stranger’s day complicated.
This is the power of strong writing ... no heavy budget, limited cast worth watching multiple times
How many times have you rewatched it? 16?
They ripped off Rick and Morty…
@@awayfaringman Other way round. Please see the notes (and I've now changed the title a little).
@@AVDevon I was going off of the posted date of the video, but after digging a little further I see that you are correct. This video is in fact older than their skit. I stand corrected.
and no unnecessary virtue signalling , Various appropiations, putting words in mouth , etc.
WHY ON EARTH CANT THEY MAKE SHOWS LIKE THIS!!!!!
I've actually written one, just need to get it greenlit by someone.
Futurama
cause its only 5mins long.
@@boyfromoz7 What?
Oh they make plenty of them. And they blow.
To me, this film is the literal analogy of "I wish I could go back and change/fix what I did," but we tend to get lost in the spiral of "what could I had done better" that we often abuse our mental thought and physical health over some alternative outcome that'll never happen, wasting our life in the process.
This is it. Are you still here?
Agree, I can’t rob a bank in one minute
Feels like the true wisdom of life still resides with you. The voices are getting quieter.
So true. I have no right to complain about my excellent reality but am nevertheless haunted by what if.
"What could I HAVE done better".
I watched it twice in a row cause the scenario is good, the acting is good, the music is good, the editing is good, the casting is good, everything is good, what a success!
No you did not. You killed yourself and another you watched it 5:40 minutes sooner.
Thank you!
@@AVDevon You're welcome Devon Avery and Erin Hayes
@@AVDevon yeah, it really works, it REALLY works. very crisp, not a wasted second. the acting and the directing combine to make very effective storytelling. Probably most people won't recognize that the real hero of this production is the EDITOR. they will adore the finished product, but they won't realize that this polished gem was the result of expert editing.
@@ericsilberman1416 I would had liked to see the scene where she dies for the first time, right after she told him how it works. :)
I missed this 10 years ago and I’m really glad it’s been re-posted and shared with me. So funny and sweet - love it
Not me. In fact, I replayed it several times before it went missing. By then I had watched enough times to understand the principles of Time Travel and so; built my box and jumped ahead to today. NOW I'm on a Quest to find girls needing spankings.
@@arcanondrum6543 I salute you good sir
@@mfzoom5401 and I, you sir!
@@arcanondrum6543 You are just the demographic they are looking for........congrats. Lust knows no bounds.
You can ignore those notes in the description about months of editing. We all know that Devon actually achieved perfection in this film by using an actual 1-minute Time Machine, in the process murdering 743 other Devons and emotionally scarring the same number of Brian Dietzens and Erinn Hayeses. The final version was filmed in a single take.
Great comment! Thank you!
I'd say that's also a form of editing... Just not editing a video, but editing reality. 😅
Thankfully I just have an edit button here.
All to get laid? Is there a real plot?
No edits first round
I love how in one universe he walks up, takes her book, says f this and kills himself
The ending was so unexpected and sweet. Such great storytelling
It also makes no sense. Since it previously only worked on him, and she stayed behind with his dead body. In the ending they break the rules they established..
@@Carewolf how does it not make sense? clearly it works for whoever presses the button, so now theres dimensions where hes going through the same thing she did all those times.
@@Mazikeen8934 Which means she dies, which she knows. I assumed the twist in the end was she let him die to get laid, but breaking the rules of the sketch.
@@Carewolf The twist is she's now using the machine herself. And breaking what rules? It's a *comedy* sketch after all...
@@Carewolf this movie isnt about time machine.
When you realize that she didn't help the traumatized man when she hit the button, but instead further burdened his trauma by dieing in front of him, depriving him from the one positive outcome of all of his deaths thus far.
Oh.......
But the man can hit the button still?(with trauma
@@liyuanhang4189he can, and by doing this he will cause a paradox.
Then what's going to happen @@liyuanhang4189
Yeah, but that's fork 17 of that man. Fork 18, the fork she created one minute before is gonna be very happy. He "restarted" 16 times in his mind, and on the 17th (his view, 18th fork in reality) he succeeded.
I honestly love Brian’s acting, it sells the short in a way not many actors could
I agree
bravo vince
Its like a toned down jim carrey
That's awesome. Thanks for the backstory. "Vat Of Acid" is literally my favorite episode of Rick and Morty. Excellent writing on both parts. Brian and Erinn played so well of each other too. Kudos Mr Avery.
This short epitomises the incredible talent and dedication of the editing; leaving apart the script, direction and the actors - who were all brilliant. No wonder it took 13 months - this is perfection!
Thank you!
Quality quality quality. Loved it. It obviously paid off. This is why I prefer short films over mass produced movies.
Bro the beat in “I’ve never had a man fight for me before…let alone die for me” is effin genius. Like it wraps up the romcom part so nicely then immediate takes the story further. Writing is great obviously but pulling so much out of this one beat clearly needs hell of a lot from everyone involved.
Also I know you did it first. But your writing uses this time travel concepts wayyyy more satisfyingly than Rick and Mortys and I like Rick and Morty (earlier seasons at least). So kudos. Kinda lost respect for that episode because they just took it almost 100% percent.
Thank you! Most of the heavy lifting (in terms of the comedy beats) was done by the actors, they were amazing. My challenge in the edit was to try to make the whole thing better than the sum of it's parts.
@@killmaidie6469 If you visit the Ko-fi link above, you will a see a screenshot from that Rick and Morty episode and how it compares to a shot in my other short film "Practice Makes Perfect", that's what surprised me the most.
Genius? That's a very standard transition. The comments for this video are weirdly ass-kissing.
only most women regardless of how ugly or fat they had tons of guys fight for them
Such a sweet short. We agonize and regret over every little mistake we make, and we wish we could go back and change it, not knowing we're essentially rejecting (or rather, killing) our true, authentic self.
I’d like to add, in the beginning, each of them are so quick to judge each other, instead of taking more time to work through these interactions.
The whole "true-self" thing is extremely overrated. Must be something religious.
😮
I agree with The Hellsy. I would still be myself even if my past was greatly altered. I don’t know if that’s the case of most people but in my case, I believe it’s mostly big components of my life that defined who I am: My parents, my genes, my family, my country, the education system of my country, the culture of my country, etc.
I would likely eventually have become the person I am today regardless of each individual event of my life.
I don’t think my identity is the result of a chaotic system. I believe it evolved toward a stable state. I think the different stable states it could have reached are quite similar, and that it would have required great effort, great changes in parameters, to result in a different state.
I think it’s cool.
its not that deep
This reminds me of the short play "Sure Thing" from All in The Timing. Both have these short bits of story telling revolving around having little do-overs, that cumulatively add to or change the direction of the story. Great stuff!
Wow! It's incredible what you can do with a great idea, a bench and two good actors. Well done Mr. Avery!
Thank you!
Someone has stolen your idea copied 100% and made a short film.
@@enavigatorE If it's on TH-cam or Facebook I can probably get them to take it down.
@@enavigatorE Ideas are easy, execution is hard
Here's another example of that thesis.
th-cam.com/video/BngcLnLZgA8/w-d-xo.html
This one pops up in my feed every few months. Thank goodness.
I can watch it over and over again. It's a classic!
its not poping up every few months.. its a part of time travelling..
@@JayanthaJayawardhana-s1l Yes, this is the first time you have ever seen this video.
One of those very rare short films worthy of watching over and over. A perfect little movie.
Look for "Caronte" and "Strange beasts"
Just press the button and you'll always get to replay it.
I’ve watched is dozens of times along the years and shared it with friends.
Yer hitting the button aren't you...
Superb felicitări!
I know i got here late but just got to say this is one of the most beatiful short films i ever saw, Thank you for taking the time.
Not late, perfectly on time. It's very gratifying and humbling that people are still discovering and enjoying this film. Thank you!
This is one of the best sci fi shorts I have ever seen. It was flawless and well acted. I can watch this over and over and over again.
Thank you!
@@AVDevon Can i get the soundtrack / songs anywhere? Are they originals?
I have watched this dozens of times since it first appeared online and it remains one of my favorite short films of all time and IMO one of the best time travel films ever made. Thank you for making it!
Thank you!
Film school nerd here… I agree! There are a few things which make it stand out in the time travel genre. One is that the everything that happened before the guy sits down is completely ignored and fully accepted: how he made the time machine; the fact that it looks completely ridiculous up to labeling it “one minute time machine;” the fact that it works!; the fact that this seems to be the first time he tries it out, and the fact that it’s just one minute of time travel into the past. We as the audience never question any of that. There are so many other time travel and time loop films that start to fall apart or become distracting when the film gives too much attention to the time travel process, DeLorean, hot tub, magic cave. It’s just a red button on a box that goes back a minute. No questions asked! And her explanation is about as simple and clear as any ever given in a sci-fi film. 13 months of editing? Worth every second. It’s as tight and fluid as anything you’ll ever see.
why?
@@LAGreg123It can be interesting if creators try to explain things but often it is not necessary or useful. I rewatched Stargate SG1 recently and noticed that often when encountering the unknown the characters would use the word "somehow"😀 Samantha would simply say that the machine used subspace somehow and we would not question it further. I think creators at some point started to use that word as a joke.
By a strange quirk of fate, a multi-dimensional disturbance in the space-time continuum has now revealed that this was one of the best time travel films ever made.
This short film has more punch and substance in it than many full-length movies. Takes a lot of talent to pack it all into just a few minutes. BRAVO.
Thank you!
I think it would be difficult to stretch an idea out into 1.5 to 2 hours of film also. It might end up like this, but with longer dialogue, or maybe there would be B stories. One of the reasons I like short stories is that they do not need a lot of filler and do not need to trap your attention for hours with fluff.
@@AVDevon Great story. I love that she went along with it, knowing the truth.
now this is kind of work we try to find in marvels. your few minute movie gave me more Harmons of happiness and satisfaction then any whole normal movie. Superb!
Amazing the story you can tell in under six minutes! It's like watching "Edge of Tomorrow" without the aliens, in five minutes. Well done!
But better 🥹
It's the prestige
More like Groundhog Day
Or The Butterfly Effect movie.
THIS deserves AN OSCAR such a simple concept - such a dynamic entity!
common... are you serious?
@@erikm9768 Yeah,only lefties and pedos get that.
What? Are you blind? An oscar? what the hell 😂
When people write just for writing about something that they don’t know how is works !!
Simple concept? It's a simple story perhaps. But conceptually it depends on time travel and consequences from it, etc. Quite complex I think.
One of the best short films I’ve ever seen. Bravo.
Its a SHORT, not a short film. It was shot using DIGITAL Video.
I agree ☝️
I love Brian, and was delighted to see he was in this. And I loved the film. Thank you for making it (and thanks to those who helped you), and thanks for posting it here for everyone to see.
I also love how you make the start of the movie seem its the first time he's sitting next to her etc, I have a feeling this is atleast his 8th attempt and the movie starts with a good introduction of them both. Just brilliant, gets more entertaining more I watch it.
Thank you!
I loved this film ever since I first watched it several years ago, and have shared it in my philosophy club when we were discussing time travel. I'm so glad you decided to keep it and share the story behind it too. Brilliant work.
Thank you!
You 'discuss' time travel?
What's there to discuss? 😂
There's no reason to discuss something you've probably already discussed before.
One of the best short films I watched ! So simple, yet so great !
That’s 6 minutes that I will never get back and I don’t care because it was worth it. What a wonderful film short. Great video.
That short film is glorious! The idea, the visuals, the irony. It‘s beautiful! Thank you for such a creation!
Thank you!
That's so cute, just two people infinitely murdering each other to get closer
Murdering themselves, not each other. Sorry to be picky
lol
@@petroglyph888mcgregor2 Don't be, that was a valid correction
And they say romance is dead
*themselves
Holy sh*t, this is the single most perfect piece film of any length I’ve ever seen. It seemed just *impossibly* perfect, not a frame missing or wasted, the dialog, expressions, framing, everything is keyed to such a pitch that it couldn’t possibly be better. How is something this good even possible?
Then I read the back story in the description.
Oh, that’s how 😂🤯
Hats off & 3 thumbs up for an amazing creation!
Dave, that is one of the best comments / compliments I have ever read on here. Thank you so much for taking the time to read the notes and for your kind words.
1 MINUTE TIME MACHINE
dude relax
Great film! James is the one pushing the button but if he dies why doesn't everyone die? If there is a reason everyone doesn't die then by hitting the button 20 times he has obviously created 20 continuing parallel universes, essentially committing suicide 20 times but creating 50 some billion new lives. All just to get laid? Yeah, I guess that checks out.
Bro this is a very average 2000s style skit
This film has lived rent free in my head for a decade. Kudos.
Kudos to everyone involved in making this masterpiece!! 🙌🧠
Thank you!
agree it is a masterpiece
I remember watching this over and over when I was in high school, still one of the best executed shorts of all time.
Thank you!
This is a beautifully crafted little gem. The power of strong writing, acting and editing. Simple location, no ludicrous over the top CGI. Just great filmmaking.
My simple mind can’t understand where the energy comes from to create another parallel universe in the one second. Must need a lot of energy to suddenly create all this mass, the stars, planets, moons, dust, people…….do love the video, acting and in awe of the work involved
wow i never thinked about it like that. crazy.
Suspending disbelief and practical reality can make the experience of fiction and or magic a lot more fun. Or, to the contrary, maybe it's fun to analyze stuff, too!
Well, if they have quantum time crystals.....
maybe everytime you create a parallel universe, you simply, also create an identical universe made of antimatter, therefore the process has a net energy consumption of 0.
Or you could just press Ctrl+ c
It's The Prestige, Morty! You Prestiged yourself! You actually did all those things!
You let your wiener do the walking and now I’m dead morty!
Groundhog day has a similar concept. Check out the movie.
It was Used like in this short in a sequence with Nicholas Cage and Jessica Bell in the 2007 movie "Next"@@pdcdesign9632
i appreciate your recounting in the description, was a really fun read and gave a lot of insight into the challenges and difficult decisions you have to make in pursuit of what youre really after
I remember watching this back in 2015 when I was in college. Oh god I don’t even remember how many times I’ve watched it repeatedly just to find that magic that made me fell in love with this 6 mins movie. It’s so good it inspired me to make my own short films for college competitions. Now out of nowhere it popped up on my feed, bringing back all the memories with it. This is literally a piece of art. A master piece. Thank you for making this ❤.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind words.
Wow!! That was pure entertainment! Thank you for creating this effin masterpiece!
I have been looking for this original masterpiece for a long time. Thanks Devon , for reposting it !
My pleasure. Glad you found it again.
I love that you showed the whole process, including the background pictures and learning the new skills. This is awesome!
Found this on TH-cam back in 2016, now it's 2024 and this is still my favourite short film. I'm glad to have stumbled upon it again!
i saw this comment in 2025. how are you saying its 2024?
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Whoa, I thought we'd have to wait until after Skynet takes over for time travel to be invented. But if you're in 2025, then maybe the Terminator films aren't the documentaries I thought they were.
Mee too :)
I don't know how many times I come back to watch this short since the beginning of it when it had only a few thousand views. I knew from the first moment I watch it that it would blow up some day and it did. Now, even better when I know the background of this short which completes the picture for me. Thanks a lot for your brilliant short Devon. Keep it up.
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words.
It's really strange that I'm sure I saw this more than two months ago but here it is TH-cam date says uploaded two months. Did I see it in another dimension?
First time seeing it, was really good.
@@rlong749 I think it's reuploaded
@@keepsmiling5937 The channel it was originally on was deleted, I think this channel is owned by the creator
I LOVED THIS. It honestly really inspired me, and MOTIVATED me to continue on with my own short stories. Thank you Devon, wish you all the best!
That is so wonderful to hear. Thank you! And, no doubt, your short stories will inspire others, and so on...
I would like to read one of your short stories.
As a physicist I have often had to point out the philosophical impossibility of time travel as people think of it. The fact that if YOU could go back with your current knowledge it couldn't be the SAME past therefore it must be dimensional travel NOT time travel. This is another very interesting twist on the whole idea. I loved it.
Also, as a physicist, we would usu that button however many times it takes.....
Doesn't HAVE to be dimensional travel. There is nothing that prevents whatever energy patterns and particles that form your memory from spontaneously rearranging to form the new reality. It is simply very unlikely...unless you have a time machine to force it. So the universe just snaps into a new solution to the wave function and keeps right on going. Same reality. Just an updated to incorporate the time travel event. But you are correct. The new solution may possibly incorporate some retrocausality. Still, that seems more likely than the idea that there are multiple copies or many worlds. Fundamentally, nothing says the past has to be immutable.
@@BangkokBubonaglia I have always said, if you travel back in time to tell yourself not to travel back in time, you just damn sure better conserve energy in the process.
As a physicist, F U.
@@pauliexcluded1 Iknow what you mean brother, a physicist here too... so difficult to find "that special one" to most of us... hit the button hit the button
Ok, this is the third time this has cycled through my feed, and the third time I've watched. It's still some of the best six minutes of content ever put on TH-cam.
This is a perfect comedy skit. It's funny. It's cute. It's raunchy. It's dark. It's got everything in less than 6 minutes!
if you make a one minute time machine don't write one minute time machine on it🤣
@@raven4k998 then why does your tv remote have a label that says "TV remote"
@@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel oh that's umm a microwave yes that's it it's a microwave don't mind the tv remote label that's just a typo🤣
@@raven4k998 ah I see with its numbers that sets the timer
I have watched so many of these short films it is really refreshing to come across this absolute gem.
Brian has a very Paul Rudd quality in this but more subtle. Love it. Erinn Hayes is wonderful as ever. One of the best short films I have seen in years. Thank You.
OUTSTANDING! The two actors fit together like a glove, not the one that disappears somewhere in the washing machine of course....I'm still looking for it But a match might appear in Cern ! Good Work Mr. Avery!
What a brilliant story told in 5 minutes! Thanks for the background. Not knowing all what you shared I'd have thought, "oh he got a great idea, they filmed it one weekend, then slapped he film together..." Goodness, you and others put a lot of work into this. I'm so impressed.
Again, love the film. I hope it can lead to further projects.
Thank you! It was worth it, to get it right. Ten years later there's only one version that people see, might as well make it the best version it can be.
Odd, the video I watched was only 1 minute.
I watched this years and years ago on TH-cam and really loved it! It's cool to see it back here posted by it's creator. Thank you! 😊
Thank you!
This movie is how I feel about Star Trek teleporting. Nobody has yet to convince me they aren't just murdering people and making clones of them with full memories on the other side.
At least it's not Spaceballs teleporting.
Yes, yes, Dr McCoy, we know you hate the transporter. ;-)
Same. I'm a big Star Trek fan and you couldn't get me to use one of those death machines.
Great twist. Straight to the point. Cool mental exercise. Great move.
This is so good, I did not expect that ending. So clever and it shows the personality of the characters very well. Loved it.
Clever, inspiring, ground hog day but in 5 mins!
Love how it covers the concept that we all make mistakes but we just have to continue on regardless and that even a 1 minute time machine cannot fix
One of the most underrated short films of all time that has stood the test of time and always will (Without even needing a Time Machine either, on that note).
I thought it was a trailer until the 16 times part,
❤️🙏🏻🕊✌🏻🌻🌎🌍🌏🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸✌🏻
Read the description. It is not underrated at all.
Ugh! What an awfully cliche' comment... TRY AGAIN.
Let’s hope it gets rated higher in the future.
This short have two plot twists, it broke my first believe about how a short film must create : exposition 90% and a twist at the end, ahahahahah. finally a sharp entertain short with a never ending entertainment !
I have loved this film for a long time. I watch it every time it appears on my feed! Fantastic acting, and music and writing.
Brilliant. Perfect. Chefs kiss acting. And the twist is adorable. Audience Award! 🏆
oh man! it's beautifully captured. The storytelling is brilliant and what a sweet ending.
Honestly, this is one of the best short films I've ever seen. I never get tired of it, and I've watched it probably a dozen times over the last several years.
This is very well done, great story, great acting, funny and well written! Incredible to see what a fun idea and dedication can do with so little budget
Thank you so much!
incredible piece of work, only 5 minutes but after watching it feels like i know the actors a lot more than just 5 minutes. really enjoyed watching, actually makes me feel truly warm and happy. hope there's more from where that came from.
My other short film Practice Makes Perfect hopefully makes people feel warm and happy, that was the plan anyway.
One of the legendary short films that have its name etched forever in history of short films. Love it.
This was GREAT story writing, fun with science, and damn good acting.
And editing. Editors are the Gods of our time.
Especially video editors.
Really.
I enjoy the backstory on putting this together. It's interesting to peak inside the mind of a perfectionist, and hear how you edited it so many times, even down to eliminating single frames. Truly a passion.
Porka
To be fair, that's what all editing is, obsessing over single frames until you want to tear your hair out
I never would have guessed how much work this took to create or it's significance among filmmakers. That just shows my ignorance. What an awesome short film it really goes to show that a film doesn't have to be long to be remarkable and have an impact.
Thank you! Filmmaking is an enjoyable challenge, and even the simplest, tiniest things can sometimes take a really long time. I once worked on a feature film where everyone had to arrive at 6am. Hundreds of extras were dressed and made up, the crew in their hundreds slaved away all day prepping to get a single shot of raising a circus tent during golden hour. When the time arrived the tent mechanism failed and everything had to repeated on a different day. The final shot lasted about ten seconds. I could have shot a whole TV series with how much was spent on that single shot.
@@AVDevon That's crazy! Sometimes we as an audience don't always appreciate the pure insanity that it takes to create what's on our screens. I definitely have a greater appreciation for the creation process. Thanks for the response!
I watched another TH-cam video about how Editing is the real thing that makes a movie - and it was only then that I really realized how true that is.
OMG ! Haven't laughed that much since a while now ! Especially when he resets after the "my 5 yo niece likes "science" thing. Thank you, thank you so much for being that funny !
My pleasure, thank you for the great comment.
Thank you just this once, You Tube, for your algorithm.
What a gem. Amazed I've never seen it before, and it's now in my very short list of YT favourites.
This film is a shrine to execution. Every aspect of production is immaculate. Script perfect. Acting sublime. Editing on point. I couldn't figure out how they managed light over the course of this shoot until I saw the behind-the-scenes shots. Great production team all around. Well done, Devon.
Thank you!
I think the opening title, end credits, and music could have been better, but the actual film and editing is pretty perfect!
@@comment15 it reminds me of the opening in the Big Bang theory, it's cute...
wow you have a weird perspective on films
Okay, I have just watched this. My jaw is still on the floor. Literally it's also taken my breath away. BRILLIANT script, editing, production and direction. The acting was superb. I loved every second of every minute of this masterpiece of filmmaking.
Thank you so much! That is all very kind of you to say.
A masterpiece of the short film format! I will definitely show in my classroom and spread the word. You deserve the likes!
Thank you! I hope your class enjoy it and that it's simplicity inspires them.
Congrats! Really smart and funny. I relate about the time frame. In the very last stages of my short I wrote during COVID to keep me and a friend busy while things were slow. Life comes at us and things take forever. Glad to see the pay off was worth the effort for you!
Seriously well done. It’s brought be a lot of joy finding it again 😊
Ah, I remember watching this years ago! Absolutely spectacular job, Devon!
Thank you, Andre!
Kudos for taking the Rick and Morty usage of your idea as a compliment and not a rip off.
Saw this quite a while back and was blown away by it. I shared it with loads of people who reacted likewise. It is simply a masterpiece in every way. Great to see it winning praise from the industry.
Bravo. The piece and your explanation of what it took to make it a finished product is everything this film making world needs right now.
Thank you for taking the time to read my explanation. Glad you enjoyed the film.
I second this. It's like watching an amazing story, and then reading the story of how it came to be. Presenting those two things (the story, and the story behind the story) will hopefully inspire other film makers, or anyone pursuing something seemingly insurmountable, to not quit because they only ever see a polished product and not the 13 months this guy, and others, took to make it happen. It's next level, better than any motivational speaker/course mofo could ever do to inspire
That was great! It reminds me of "About Time", one of the best movies, ever. Keep making films, we need some more like this!
Agree. One of the greatest films of all time.
I also loved Somewhere In Time... Of course the music variation on a theme by Paganini or such is sooooo beautiful also
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It's a masterpiece...my favorite short film of all time ...i often watch this to cheer up my mood....love you and thank u for this fabulous work
Thank you so much! It means a lot to read comments like these.
This was brilliant - your work and perseverance paid off! The comedic timing is spot on perfection, utilizing the talents of these actors to the utmost! Excelsior!
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
Love to watch this once in a while.. Its just so good and refreshing
This is a lot better than most 90 minute movies
Hi Devon !
I'm among these lucky chaps who have seen your short the first time it streamed on youtube, almost a decade ago ! It was an absolute blast !
Glad to know a bit more about the bts of the movie. Sad to see that Sploid has closed its channel, making the original video and its comments unaccessible anymore, but great to see you post it again here.
Damn, the 2010's were really the golden age of shorts filmmaking in TH-cam. I miss these times !
This is one of my favorite things on TH-cam. Such a nice surprise when the algorithm serves it up to me after a while 😊
It shows your talent as a director, Devon! Would so love to see more of your creativity soon. All the best!
The limit is 4 seconds.
Perfection, you dont need a big budget to create something amazing as this.
This pops up in my feed once a while , I always save it for later lol , didnt expect it to be this way
Great fun story 🤘🤘
This was really entertaining. Fantastic writing, fun characters and great actors. You should make more of these
What a truly refreshing idea, I love the multi dimensional murder box theory. Beautifully shot the lighting was excellent. I’d love to see a full movie of this idea, how he came up with the one minute time machine box and how they moved on from this scene.
I've written a whole TV series that explores where he got the box - spolier, it wasn't his.
@@AVDevon Then you need to get this series made asap, it’s a great idea, I’m guessing it was some government project or a scientist that left it to him
This is based on “Sure Thing” a one-act play by David Ives and apart of a collection of one acts called “All in the Timing” It’s brilliant. Hilarious, soul touching… in “Sure Thing” a couple meets at a coffee shop a bell rings every time they screw up… it’s amazing.
Example (paraphrased):
Him”What’s a good looking girl sitting around reading on a night like this”
Her”Trying to stay away from lines like that”
(Ding)
It is not. It is a time loop comedy like many that came before it, most influenced by Groundhog Day and Star Trek. I was not aware "Sure Thing" existed until 3 years after I made this film and several people like yourself insisted it was an exact copy. I was intrigued so I watched it. I did not see any multiple suicides. No button pushes. Just two people and a reset time loop as the only similarities. Can you tell me why the bell rings to create the time reset? Who rings the bell? What are the consequences of the multiple resets? These are answered in my film, and I believe are core to the story and what drives it.
I love this. It’s like the guy in the movie queue in Annie Hall who starts quoting Marshall McLuhan only to have McLuhan suddenly appear to tell him what he’s saying is wrong.
@@AVDevon There are NO original ideas; only original interpretations. Yours is one of the best. Almost every sci-fi/fantasy show from Buffy to Charmed to Red Dwarf to Legends of Tomorrow has done a Time Loop episode. Also films like Happy Death Day. It would have been interesting to see HIS reaction to having a dead female body beside him after her second button push, 'though. Also, there is an unanswered question: since he clearly doesn't know anything about Quantum Physics, then where did he get the One Minute Time Machine from? Physics suggests that Time Travel is only possible as far back as when a Time Machine is first created (which is why we haven't yet met any Time Travellers), so he didn't have time in that minute with the woman to also go back and to find out how to make one to travel back in time to give it to himself.
@@AVDevon I'm not going to argue whether you actually based your story on Ives's one act as Julie mentioned. If you say you weren't aware of it, that's good enough for me (tropes are tropes after all), but claiming that "two people and a reset time loop" are the ONLY similarities is a bit disingenuous.
I've directed "Sure Thing" on stage before, and the similarities are strong. The scene begins with several requests to sit with the other person, they progress towards a few botched pick-up lines (with the woman even asking directly in both your short film and the play if he's trying to "pick [her] up"), the focus shifts towards the book that she's reading which the man hasn't read, and it ends with the woman becoming just as invested in getting together with him that she takes over the time resets.
Does your story ultimately take a different narrative path than Ives's play? Of course. But hopefully you can at least appreciate the irony of how much similarity there actually *is* in both your stories (more so than Groundhog Day or Trek).
This definitely seems like a rip off, but I could see more than one person coming up with such a story independently. It's a "Cute meet" with a time loop initiated by pressing a bell/button. Sure Thing is better; funnier. "Explaining things" doesn't necessarily make something better. John Carpenter's "Halloween" is better than Rob Zombie's "Halloween."
This is so brilliant and witty. I love how in the end, he is so successful that she not only believes him but also uses it herself. Hilarious. It leaves their future together open to the wildest imagination.
Just ran into this and I can’t believe how good and clever it is