Primer
Behind a garage door, four competitive young entrepreneurial tech-wiz guys in white shirts and ties spend their every spare minute working on the "box". They know they are onto something big – only pin-pointing exactly what is something time alone will reveal. While ethical and social ramifications couldn't be further from initial consideration, their invention's potential soon becomes evident. Primer is intelligent, complex and frighteningly believable. Costing just US$7,000, this is small-budget sci-fi but big-budget brain-fodder.
Reviews
“Primer unites physics and metaphysics in an ingenious guerrilla reinvention of cinematic science fiction: Its analogue-egghead approach may be the freshest thing the genre has seen since 2001. An ingenious guerrilla reinvention of cinematic science fiction.”
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
“Rivetting. Radically independent.”
David Ansen, Newsweek
Screens With
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When
9:45 PM Monday, 28 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 1
3:30 PM Thursday, 3 March
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Mercury Cinema
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
As Part Of
General FeaturesAbout Primer
78 minutes35mm
1.85:1
In English
Print Source
InFocus Film Distribution
Jon Nielson
jonn@infocusfilms.com.au
Awards
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic Sundance 2004Festivals
Seattle 2004Toronto 2004
Chicago 2004
Vancouver 2004
About the Director
Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth was born in South Carolina, USA. Graduating with a degree in mathematics, he went to work but promptly quit all of his first three engineering positions. Enamoured with stories since childhood, he set out to learn everything he could about filmmaking with the end result being his first feature film Primer.