Room 8 - Winner of the BAFTA for Short Film 2014

[@imaginative-monkey]

We cannot escape from problems. If we try to do so, we'll end up in the same place, with bigger problems, while we are weaker and smaller.

[@royhe2277]

UNDERRATED COMMENT. That's a sick interpretation :)

[@h.a.2878]

Thank you for comment.

[@thechosenonedaniel]

It’s not that deep English teacher…

[@marioarcega5709]

God

[@mosho4305]

Not necessarily , each set of new problems includes perks from our resolves for older problems and new possibilities for more perks , your world can be bigger and more pleasant than your problems make it to be , do not despair there is always room for growth to be more joyfull and competent

[@_lau_99]

I think that the number 8 might stand for the fact that if you turn it on one side, it becomes the infnite symbol, like the dimension, where you endlessly go out of the box and back into another one.

[@mar1usedy]

Nah it stand for room8 /#neverforgetti

[@albertdedeaux8921]

room 8=room mate

[@nature_priroda]

Perhaps many have forgotten, but this idea of ​​a mysterious box and stuffing items into it as they appear from above was implemented much earlier in the famous 3D cartoon "Delivery" 2005 ! "Delivery | A Short Film by Till Nowak" 2005

[@Kayra_Johnson]

iremle izledik🎉

[@lil_wildboar]

​@@albertdedeaux8921 I think room 8 = room infinite because 8 is like an infinity symbol.

[@joxhoha6193]

It’s weird how he understands he’s just interacting with himself within the cell, but then still chooses to think escaping via the box lid is different suddenly

[@Flxsh42]

He would be small enough to fit under the door and escape, but he would be super small and have no way to get big

[@benbrown]

This totally blew my mind, the power of imagination!

[@derxer614]

+Mr Ben Brown Holy f*ck, thanks mate for bringing my attention to this awesome piece of film work!! :)

[@autumnpeace100]

This is the movie? It's a short film, what are you linking to?

[@dogukand.taylanli9507]

amazing.. also considering everything YOU imagine is real :)

[@Xevida]

Sirknight JCB worthless ad.

[@nature_priroda]

Perhaps many have forgotten, but this idea of ​​a mysterious box and stuffing items into it as they appear from above was implemented much earlier in the famous 3D cartoon "Delivery" 2005 ! "Delivery | A Short Film by Till Nowak" 2005

[@neuron1618]

Fun things to not do: -open the box and turn it upside down -open the box and throw it up to the bigger world -open the box and hold it tight, pick up the smaller box, then let go the normal box

[@neuron1618]

I will lift him:D

[@neuron1618]

Everyone will be lifted by an infinite number of meters!: It doesn't make sense!:D

[@nickthomson6440]

+neuron1618 on the last point. The box wouldnt go anywhere because the bigger you is holding (with his fingers) the smaller box...which the smaller you is holding tightly. Youde be holding yourself.

[@hamzahadji976]

Nnn Le

[@paragbaser]

neuron are you madd!!!

[@Dream.of.Endless]

KZbin shorts send me here.

[@germanramirez5590]

Same

[@chadition298]

Same here

[@Lifeisinside]

Facts 😂

[@conejoXX209]

Same here

[@edgarb.6187]

The guy who summerizes movies with zero accuracy?

[@jamho6653]

Room 8. Get it? "Room mate?" haha!

[@pexfmezccle]

oh snap!

[@samdonelan6495]

No it's called room 8 because 8 sideways is the infinity sign and the box is infinite

[@Gerbilicious14]

I DO GET IT! Thumbs up for that one!

[@spartanotaku8543]

i didnt get it lol, in german we call 8 "acht" and room = raum ....

[@chaoticend27]

Or OR! Room ♾ 👌

[@sunshineyon00]

The only problem with this film is that it was too short!

[@canonuroz2819]

Because it is a short film 😃 But yes. Too short.

[@Heyoupally]

+sunshineyon it was shorter than this guy I see in this red box I just opened.

[@amirradman4968]

sunshineyon The time always fuck

[@MrMartinm86]

outside of our box it's much longer ;)

[@000aleph]

The only problem with this comment is tha

[@annejoycolombres1119]

The moment he epon the box and touch his own finger is like a mirror facing to each other. Endless replica.

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@pluggedin-the-ratbird]

The fine cinematography really helped capture the mood of this piece. The part where he looks back to touch the finger is certainly amazing.

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@DB7driver]

I think the most sinister thing is that in the drawer at the end, the matchbox seen earlier is still vibrating furiously, one or two others are weakly stirring but most of them have become still. It's the unpleasant details that stick in the mind, don't you know... (Speaking of which, director James W Griffiths probably saw a Doctor Who story called Planet of Fire at an impressionable age, methinks.)

[@adyrandom]

bloody hell glad someone else someone noticed that.....when i watched it again you see it alot clearer and that gave me chills......scanned down and saw this comment.......good call!

[@ahmadsuffianzainuri9542]

so what would happen if i pick up my self

[@dinokulic8975]

Omg your profile pic and that quuestion

[@DaEliminator]

Lol. Just like position yourself on your thumb and then flick yourself up into the best (and probably last) joy ride of your life

[@dinokulic8975]

So i was thinking about this for like the last 5 hours, Dimensions are infinite both bigger than his and smaller than his, so if he picked himself up he would have to hold himself infinite amount of times altough easier with every dimension while being held with infinity of himself. infinity times no matter how little is equal to infinity. So he either couldnt pick himdelf up or if he tried jumping and then reaching in box and catching himself the mass that he held (If somehow secured so it doesnt slip out of his hand) would rip his body apart in every dimension. If somehow he could pick himself up (e.x. air molecules get denser the deeper the boxes go) he would travel up the sped of light becasu every dimension is puling itself up in praticly no time (if he could survive traveling at the speed of light) he would be in a dimension where he is smaller than the smallest molecule. And if he broke that box would every dimension turn in to the bigger one? And as i was writing this i just figured it is 5 a.m. and i have a lot of important shit today.

[@dinokulic8975]

RimanX It is not just picking himself up it is about picking himself 1000 times lighter than himself holding another himself 100000 times lighter than himself..... any number (n>0) times infinity is infinite because infinity is an idea rather than an actual number. Lets say his mass is X (x>0) and that trough every dimension he gets Y (Y>0) times lighter than in previous dimension to lift himself up he would have to lift up (X:Y) * Infinity = infinity because no matter by how many times you divide a number larger than 0 by a number larger than 0 it will be bigger than 0 and no matter how small the number is multiplied by infinity it equals to infinity.

[@dinokulic8975]

RimanX I kinda get it now But i think we would need a real mathematician for this.

[@juliecolleran4101]

My 19 year old son just showed it to me as they showed it to his college communications class. WOW...pretty cool actually, some people have the greatest imaginations! Congrats Mr. Griffiths.

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@ThommyKane]

This is the best short film ever made. Ive seen hundreds of them. Thats what I do. this is the best. Perfect. absolutely perfect. perfect length, perfect twist, perfect acting, perfect dialogue, perfectly laid out. The best short film ever made.

[@Shiva108]

so you liked it , huh?

[@ThommyKane]

@@Shiva108 lol indeed

[@thomashardy7113]

get a plate of food eat all of it but a few bites put it in the box receive huge bits of food from heaven eat that food into a few bites put it in the box repeat ad infinitum

[@Megacooltommydee]

Until you get to the atomic level. Then the unbreakable bits would become too big to eat.

[@ragaire1146]

😂 like recycling

[@ragaire1146]

haha

[@khairuladham3952]

Poof we figured out the real quantum

[@Viliam1234]

@@Megacooltommydee Long before the atomic level, the bacteria in the food would get big enough to eat you.

[@livingproof428]

2025 and tiktok shorts sends me here

[@darielleflynn1214]

Same lol

[@Kiana97100]

I wish there was a part two or something. So many questions. This is brilliant. I wish it was a film. Amazing idea. Speechless. I want to know what happens next.

[@wernick2249]

@@atrevino90 being honestly, room 8 is the better one.

[@abdulsameeh_666]

@@wernick2249 but Nolan made it first...

[@kwcy92]

Nah, a part two would ruin it. It's better to leave you with room for imagination.

[@joeyjojojunior1794]

These type of stories generate questions, stimulate thought. Conclusions are meant to be pondered but never confirmed by the creator. I love it.

[@mrjoebsoto]

A well deserved win at the BAFTA, good job! Can't believe I'm FINALLY seeing this.

[@mazzak]

Imagine if he shook the box before he opened it

[@johnpyle9891]

This is probably the most amazing short story film I have ever seen.

[@destiny.on.the.phone.]

Mind blowing 5 and a half minutes! Loved every second of it, and I see why this short film won

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@Teyo7]

i actually applaused !! i really regard it as the best short film i've ever seen !!

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@SeniorAdrian]

Reminds me of "DOODLEBUG" by Nolan.

[@amitchoudhury725]

Yes

[@slin2354]

was thinking the same

[@04rit]

Exactly

[@TheOtherSun]

Reminds me of black mirror

[@CallumLees]

I only watched it once but it had that dystopian feel.

[@mjeed8063]

+TheOtherSun is it worth watching ? for the mind fuck factor .

[@TheOtherSun]

Yeah it's the biggest mindfuck tv series I've seen.. seriously

[@DaEliminator]

What a deliciously dark video. How blind-sighted some people can be when presented opportunity. (If the prisoner was smart, he should've realized it's not even possible to escape the room however you tried it.. you'd just miniaturize yourself into an increasingly large room..)

[@Rionx]

that would permit for him to escape trought the prison bars... But u can ask another thing! Whats the point living small forever?

[@omarjadallah9961]

Rodolfo Pires that is why the glasses guy traps him in the matchbox, to eliminate that possibility.

[@DaEliminator]

Oh woops, I didn't realize the large gap at the bottom of the prison cell door. I thought it went down flush with the floor so escape would have been impossible without external help. But yeah, that was one of the other points: You'd have no way to enlarge yourself back up so you'd be stuck with that huge disadvantage and getting out of that prison would then be like trying to run your way out of a large city.

[@rxonmymind8362]

​@@Rionx That's what I was thinking. The obvious answer isn't always the best answer. As the big guy with the finger I want to smashed it through the bars.

[@rtbwolf]

Imagine the insects in that place.

[@PeterStinklage]

If they behaved like real people: "What is it?" "Little box that's recursively the room you're in, go on check it out." "Oh neat, so I can rearrange the furniture without much effort. Now, why are we in prison again?"

[@MrFearQuit]

+Alexander Peterson But the glasses guy is like the warden. He said send in another prisoner, so he WANTS the prisoners to fail

[@TheAGCteam]

+Reed Passmore Who knows, maybe he is looking for some-one to succeed.

[@rxonmymind8362]

​@@TheAGCteam The analogy "thinking outside the box" would apply.

[@dazzlemasseur]

​@@TheAGCteamin just respecting his wishes and not touching the box.

[@nesa4839]

Am I the only one who had to watch this cos my teachers sent me a link cos of corona? No? Ok

[@victoriatwisleton-ward8034]

No, I had to as well. Did you have to say what your favourite film/ or TV series was? And then say what questions it makes you ask?

[@randomraul8539]

Yea I have to do creative writing on this shit

[@anyaali671]

Same grade six work

[@randomraul8539]

@@anyaali671 I got a 4 😢

[@174wolf]

Why didn't he just smash one of the walls with his big hand?

[@omarjadallah9961]

Because if he breaks it -via the theory of the upper ceiling of the box- he would just open another portal from universe 'n' to universe 'n+1' as the portal limits are defined by the interior of the room.. He is forever trapped in that room, hence the name room 8 or the room infinity.. He can't coexist as two entities in one universe.

[@zoz0boy]

Love both of these guys above me. Comforting me there is still "outside the box" thinkers in this world

[@miroozy]

zoz0boy no such thing as outside the box :D keep dreaming as I do any way :D

[@a-filipov]

Why didn't he just kill/incapacitate the guy in the room?

[@ayoublesfer4487]

Andrey Filipov Why would he do that ? He doesn't know the other guy won't let him out, he thinks the other guy is stupid for not using that box to escape, thus the "so long, pal !", logically he has no reason to kill or harm the other guy.

[@ellenren7302]

Brilliant. Watching it was breathtaking. I screamed at the top of my lungs when I saw that giant hand reaching down--such wild imagination!

[@RAGEdredd]

How tf i missed this all these years.... this is good af

[@andyfoster8011]

"Isn't it obvious." No it isn't what are you doing up there? What are you going to do? Escape out of here as mini you and spend the rest of your life being 5cm tall? walk the whole way home with everything being 200 times larger, get killed by a rat or a cat probably before that. Here's a bright idea get down from there and knock down those walls with your giant hands instead, and squish every guard that comes near here until this place runs out of guards and then walk out of here...

[@hilmer8522]

So smart!

[@tru2mywrd517]

I would spit until the cardboard softens and escape by scratching until I get a opening

[@bulletinyohead2929]

3:54 "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo

[@swaggzdabeast5042]

This is a real life dream I have had so many times in my life this blew my mind someone thought of this and made a short film. This is exactly what happened to me in my dream!!!!!!!!!!

[@NeyoBearGaming]

"Room 8" Now turn that 8 on its side. Ironic juxtaposition of infinity and imprisonment.

[@darien07]

James W Griffiths!! thank you!!! this is top awesomeness work!! thank you ffrom the bottom of my heart!!!! Love you now!

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

[@katiezee2]

Superb in its inventiveness. After watching 3 of these I came to see that the only requirement imposed on the creators is the exchange: 'Don't open it' ..'Why?'. .'You might regret it'. 'I'll take my chances'. . .'Why didn't you tell me ?'.. 'Would you have believed me?'.. 'I don't know'.. 'Where are you going?'..'Isn't it obvious?' (no! it's not )

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@br0cha06]

this is the best short film that i ever seen in my life.

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@theguru210]

This reminded me of the multi-universe boxes in Futurama

[@mohitmehta5242]

My mind wasn't ready to process this thought early in the morning, should have watched a little later during the day .. What else I can which people haven't up till now.

[@zahidc]

Christopher Nolan did this first. It's called 'Doodlebug'.

[@ravindrajahagirdar2701]

Fantastic ! This film idea is a gem ! Wow ! You deserve BAFTA ,yesssss!

[@oopoopee]

I did an English paper on this in college. So much imagery behind everything. I'm agnostic, but this has so much christian stories imbedded within the visuals. Beautiful movie. I show this to people all the time.

[@oopoopee]

The box is red, like Eve's apple that she bites. The old man clearly acts like God and tells him not to use this box/apple.

[@oopoopee]

3:50 looks almost exactly like Michelangelo's painting of "The Creation of Adam"

[@oopoopee]

The whole scene itself is clearly a description and interpretation of God's decision of purgatory.

[@hulkhan8338]

@@oopoopee That's brilliant.

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@thebinlgbtisbabadook7832]

It reminds me of that old black and white film where a man crashes a little man with his shoe only to be crushed with the shoe of his bigger version.

[@Asmeenradee]

Doodlebug

[@mchammer9357]

I would watch this if it was a full movie! This is so creative

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@melonmusk6087]

1. use the box the kill the guy with specs 2. make a hole in the box for an escape route 3. escape

[@artrubbish]

Wow that was incredible and very original. What an amazing little short film! I loved it!

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@mosho4305]

you don't end up in a worse place each time in fact you don't end up in worst place often , each set of new problems includes perks from our resolves for older problems and new possibilities for more perks , your world can be bigger and more pleasant than your problems make it to be , do not despair there is always room for growth to be more joyfull and competent

[@sarahhibrahim]

Who is the box owner? And why did he warned the prisoner? Is he the god himself, meanwhile then he punished the prisoner for knowing too much *such a divine secret*? What would happen if the prisoner killed the box owner? Or what would happen if the prisoner was not curious enough to open the box and had contented with only reading the book? Was this book holding the truth about that box? And what about all those people in the match boxes? Will they ever be sat free? Or this is just like hell?

[@tisaghose6934]

Black mirror stuff 😅 The older man just created room 8 miniature red box with his miniature version in it for prisoners. The moment you enter room 8 a miniature version of you automatically gets created inside the box. The moment you get captured you just vanishes from the real world. That’s why he said to bring in the next prisoner. The match boxes represented death. You basically don’t get another chance once you tried to escape prison committing one more criminal act.

[@headofshinobi]

Ok... but what if he pulled himself out from the ceiling? My brain hurts.

[@ReelBigC]

I just watched the whole short film and this was literally the whole movie lol

[@jordy407]

Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed this and it is a STUNNING short but this is literally Doodlebug though.

[@sunilrampuria7906]

Yup, was looking for this comment.

[@beyondvi]

Everyone's asking what would happen if he picked himself out and I'm wondering what would happen if he threw the open box out of the room.

[@newtidecontact]

A beautifully composed piece. Well done!

[@mohamedelsoudy7637]

The place is already open.. He just looking up not spen the box

[@mathis_chamber]

Why would you do it that way. I would pick the smaller version of me and take it out of the box and since I myself would be taken out of my box and so on I would create a paradox and maybe break the universe

[@kseniasevidova121]

then ever bigger version of you would pick you too?))

[@mathis_chamber]

Ksenia Sevidova of course, it would become a big chain of myself holding myself and being moved outside the box but since the bigger version of me is being moved outside the bigger box himself and so on up to infinity I would either get out of the biggest version of the box (if it exists) or the whole universe would just collapse :D

[@DallasGreen123]

Matthias Kammerl Mathmatically, you wouldn't be able to pick yourself up, because on the other side there is hanging an infinite number of smaller you's which are pulling in the opposite direction.

[@someoddusername5677]

They do it wrong, you have to shimmy down into the little room and become giant.

[@randomcomentcom9654]

And what use would it be to be a giant inside the prison?

[@saidnidyoussef8673]

isn't that similar to the story of Adam when God warned him beforehand that he should not eat from the tree in Eden? Doesn't it mean that human pay the bill because of his curiosity to know what's beyond? or that the man in prison or God when warning them suggests that they knew it would not be for their own good to open the box or eat from the tree since that beyond in particular will be harmful for them? if that so, man should take all the responsibility of what becomes of him, and the culprit here is his curiosity

[@pexfmezccle]

nope. its just that this idiot didnt know how portals worked

[@sera1643]

yeah

[@partunc1]

it's an amazing comment !

[@si-lq8vq]

Wow, thanks for your analysis ,Bravo 👏👏👏

[@user-kq6ij1tu4w]

Using this room incorrectly , put a gold bar in there over and over and I’m supreme ruler of this planet

[@janifofonoff1035]

This was great! 6-min piece that has more originality and idea than all the blockbuster movies combined! Sure, more you think of this (and i´m usually thinking these type of things when i should go to sleep), more you find paradoxes, but the main point is that-you-think. =) Well deserved win!

[@DarqeDestroyer]

Instead of trying to escape by jumping out and making for the door as a tiny man, he should have reached into the box and smashed open the door (in the box) thus causing his giant hand to reach into the room and smash open the door, and then escape while remaining at his normal size.

[@nature_priroda]

Perhaps many have forgotten, but this idea of ​​a mysterious box and stuffing items into it as they appear from above was implemented much earlier in the famous 3D cartoon "Delivery" 2005 ! "Delivery | A Short Film by Till Nowak" 2005

[@sunilrampuria7906]

It was also inspired by Nolan's Doodlebug (1997)

[@Worojuro]

Why didn't he just use the box to break the cell door? Bigger finger 👉🏾 pushes the door 🚪 and voila, he escapes

[@SeanJohnDyerFilms]

I'm sure it's been said before but it really reminds me of Doodlebug.

[@ammarn7177]

The number 8 looks like the infinity sign. So Room 8 means the room of the infinite. It keeps happening

[@imreallyalone]

2 questions: 1: What if i pull the other guy sitting there, would that make me promote to his position? Making me a god? 2: What if i take box with me and leave the box?

[@Asmeenradee]

Xd

[@maxouris23]

Gran cortometraje ruso de la creación del director y guionista JAMES W. GRIFFITHS Ganador del premio BAFTA. Se llama "ROOM 8"

[@don-jp2rs]

Peace of Art. Bravoo

[@brook9166]

Terrific film! Definitely worth the award!

[@GeonXP89]

I've been wondering something. What if the guy grabbed himself in the box, and pulled himself up ? What would happen ? I don't think he could really pull, but I don't know how it would end.

[@23Bipin]

I was wondering the same!

[@EdvinAlvarado]

the guys get pulled by the bigger while the bigger guy will get pulled by another bigger guy. if the dimensions are infinite then there will be infinite guys to be pulling so he would be stuck in a loop.

[@GeonXP89]

That's a possibility. What I though is he would be able to give some momentum to himself, then he would be immediately put down by the gravity force. Something like that.

[@camboudjian]

What might be interesting is knowing what would happen if the guy grabs himself directly from the box (2) that is in the box (1). What would happen to the He that is in the first box ?

[@GeonXP89]

He would be grabbed by the guy in the bigger box :p

[@steviethespring]

should have just broken in the door with the big finger and squish anyone who came through the door until he got out.

[@dipakchowdhury31]

I would have picked myself up and lifted myself out of the box.

[@vigneshsivakumar8212]

That would mean you're lifting every single one of you out of the infinite boxes, while being lifted out yourself! Where does it end!?

[@bills1583]

+Vignesh Sivakumar It's not possible. You would be infinitely heavy and unable to lift yourself. If you start to lift you pull yourself and every other self they are holding up of the ground. This combined with the fact that you have to push off the floor to lift, which you couldn't do if you are being lifted. This means infinite weight so you would rip off whatever you grabbed, be that shirt or arm.

[@Bojangles26]

There should be a sequel where the guy makes a tiny cyborg army

[@Weridism]

What if you open the box and throw it out of the room?

[@carlesq.]

Have watched all 5 and this definitely worthy winner

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

[@carlesq.]

@@davidm.rodriguez6049 hi jason,thank you

[@therealanimation]

Very nice, i really enjoyed it, i think this one is better than Water song but the whole idea is really good :D

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@bfok90]

Room Infinity(written vertically)! Mind-blown.

[@heavensdevil6909]

Reminds me of Doodlebug.

[@amadeusrockband9538]

OMG WHAT DID I JUST SEE RIGHT NOW???! AMAZING!!!!

[@Lilly-C2106]

ティックトックからきた

[@FCHK1270]

おれも

[@MartieMcFlyy]

BAFTA Short Film 2014 Winner. Very well deserved

[@yousorooo]

So it's a recursive scale function.

[@heartsamess7715]

This reminds me of an episode of Futurama. Suppress the eye-rolls and look it up... because I'm sure there was one episode involving "multiverses" which ended with Fry thoughtlessly *sitting* on a box containing his own universe, thereby FLATTENING said universe. This short was live-action though, so... yeah, way more impressive to see than Futurama was.

[@davidm.rodriguez6049]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day. I’m Jason by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from??

[@jrq3rq]

Wow that's fucking awesome!

[@shotx333]

Watched it in university. If it was me my top priority would be the box itself.

[@DaMotaGaming]

Damn, that was amazing. The serious tone was a great start and tempo to this crazy abnormality. The acting even though short was greatly performed, strong story. Love the mystery and horror of it. 9/10. I wonder what the hell beat this Short Film. I'm only starting to watch the 2014 Short Films for inspiration and study. Although it says Winner but then says Nominated is confusing. So, it won, right?

[@tiffanywalker6777]

I'm definitely here so I can see this in its entirety from Instagram.

[@MrKHall2002]

So what would have happened if he just picked himself out of the box?

[@bills1583]

+MrKHall2002 You would be infinitely heavy and unable to lift yourself. If you start to lift you pull yourself and every other self they are holding up of the ground. This combined with the fact that you have to push off the floor to lift, which you couldn't do if you are being lifted. This means infinite weight so you would rip off whatever you grabbed, be that shirt or arm.

[@MrKHall2002]

+Bill S Oh ok that really helps. so really he would not be able to lift the smaller version at all since itself would also be holding on to another smaller version and that would repeat infinitely causing infinite weight. interesting. thanks for the reply, really fun concept to think about.

[@srowhani]

+Bill S The weight would be infinitesimal. So you'd definitely be able to.

[@merljj6]

+MrKHall2002 Adding infinite amounts of a person does not necessarily mean infinite weight. It depends on the rate at which the weight is decreasing. For example, if you add 1 +1/2 +1/4+1/8+... infinitely, you get 2 exactly total. Obviously, the weight here in this video would be far less than half from a smaller person to a bigger one, so I'm fairly confident your total weight would converge in the pick himself up example.

[@MrKHall2002]

but isn't half of infinity still infinity? though it is logical to think the weight of the smaller versions is decreasing in relation to the size changes there will still be an infinite number of them too add together. after a certain point the increase in weight will seem insignificant but that doesn't mean weight is not being added. (going by the half life example, 1 + 0.5 + 0.25 etc, etc, + 0.001953125 + 0.000976525 + etc. etc.) meaning that at every contact point between versions there will be weight added, now given that the weight can be added infinite times we conclude at infinite weight.

[@97pappersflygplan]

that's sick, being locked in and when he escapes he is trapped, awesome!

[@theoneandonlydopeboy6173]

So nobody gonna talk about the reason that matchbox was moving because was person inside lol 😅

[@stefankupych6978]

Anyone who has played Patrick's Parabox knows the move is to throw the box out of the room

[@bhojjadamotabanda]

Concept is lifted from Christopher Nolan's "Doodlebug". Why is no one pointing it out here?

[@kcgmail_account4098]

Seriously, the fact that he didn't credit Nolan makes me think one of two things. It was either stolen (conceptually) or that Nolan's film was lifted from another source as well!? BAFTA shoulda caught on to this, wonder what they came up with.

[@iii1031]

My Strategy: I use my big finger to smash every door but still carrying the box until I get free and by doing that I have a better view while I can see my other inmate doing.

[@ariasparrow]

Doodlebug everybody?

[@heavensdevil6909]

I thought I was one only one!

[@ariasparrow]

Rahul De Haha, so similar but with another perfection...

[@SnakesGaming2016]

step 1: cut a whole in that box step 2: put your junk in that box

[@tinymann7867]

What if he ran out of boxes for the next prisoner? Maybe he'd have to crush him hahahah XD

[@randomcomentcom9654]

He could keep him in his or in his shoes!

[@gerardone6011]

There is a version where the jailer is American and the match is used to burn the prisoner

[@ertotekel]

Tepkikolikk

[@llayy3148]

Mehmet Ertorun aynennnn

[@fishnsteve]

Cant believe this film is 26 years ago!