His "what-if?" became a reality. Now he's an imposter in another world.
After finding himself in a timeline where his dead father is still alive, Logan accidentally displaces his double and struggles to keep the lie together, as he learns that nostalgia’s sweetest dream can be its cruelest trap.
OUT OF TIME is a character-driven psychological drama about nostalgia, grief, and obsession. It follows a young, rebellious man named Logan who invents his own time machine -- and travels to parallel timeline, where he encounters his long-passed father Neil, his doppelganger, and their lifelong best friend Sabrina.
The film explores the dark side of nostalgia, the consequences of dwelling over the card you were dealt -- and the lengths one is willing to hurt themselves to achieve an unknowable life. The setting and characters of this parallel world flow throughout Logan's psyche, as the story explores the deep avenues of his mind through the experiences of our cast of character -- inspired by Carl Jung's analytical psychology.
Out of Time is a deeply personal film for me. When I was in early production on the screenplay, I knew from the get-go that my one desire was to create a film that illustrated the way that you can falter to nostalgia when deeply depressed and isolated. Becoming overly attached to the joyous elements of your childhood, and dwelling on the things that weigh on you as an adult -- is a mindset that our generation, including myself, is easily susceptible to -- to the point that it begins to effect our daily life, our outlook on the future, and our motivation and drive to better oneself.
It grew from my very first film project -- an award-winning short film by the name of Timeless, following a man named Logan as he documents his last time-jump on a quest to bring his father back. It caused me to fall in love with filmmaking, and Out of Time rounds out this concept after five years. The film serves as a reflection on my painful experiences with nostalgia and depression -- offering a more cynical perspective on the common science fiction idea that we could just go back and change our past: what harm would this truly bring? The film visualizes this struggle through manifestations of our main character's psyche, a story that pits the parts of him that want to repress and run away, against the ones that want the grow and move on. It's about the harm that we can do to not only ourselves, but to the others around us, if we take our obsession with nostalgia too far -- and the truth that changing our past is not, and will never be a reality.
This project is a low budget production, with a lot of passion and faith in the vision. By supporting this campaign, you are helping us afford production costs -- such as food, costume & set design, equipment rental, music composition, with any money over our goal going toward film festival submission costs.
