Dirty Machines: The End of History | Sci-Fi Short About Time Travel

[@shortoftheweek]

Want more? Creator David Matthew Olson produced a followup/pitch video that dives deeper into "The End of History" watch -> vimeo.com/432932790

[@ericsimonson8540]

Watched this, nice addition 😊

[@greghenderson8247]

Just remember, "If time travel will ever be possible, it already is." --Vitanaut

[@zackbarkley7593]

If consciousness creates physical reality rather than the other way around, time travel already is possible with humans, as we can imagine a future and realize this already. The limits to which we can do this define the limits of time travel into the future by effecting the future. Visualizing yourself picking up a glass of water and successfully doing that is a form of time travel....and its probably a continuum from that to what you see here, although their may at some point be a hard limit. Going into the past is also possible with books and stories, and probably with future simulation technologiest that will not be discernible from the real thing...if there really is a real thing.

[@JWSmythe]

It hasn't been discovered, because we're good at not causing paradoxes.

[@chrisyoung5929]

@@JWSmythe There is an argument that with multiple universe theory there is no paradox. If you go back from your present and kill your grandmother before your mother was born then in that universe you will never be born but you were in the universe you came from. This is not a paradox just yet another universe

[@ubermench1000]

Um, yup.

[@Awelbeckk]

​@@ubermench1000 Indeed, that is Time Travel 101: Time travel is not a D, it's a N.

[@jeffr5552]

I was waiting for him to trip over the dog leash and inadvertantly cause a paradox that wiped them all from future existence.

[@babagalacticus]

i was waiting 4 little schatze 2 bite his ankle causing him 2 trip, fall in front of the next train & thus cause a time-quake". 🙈

[@قناةبيتكو]

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[@Bizarius1]

Yup, me too

[@JeffSmith03]

I thought he would step on the dog at least

[@locophat]

It's that darn shrill music

[@normalpsychology]

I like the possibly sinister undertones of the time-travel crew. The black guy states that others had thrown the woman in front of the train -- leaving us to believe that at least a small fraction of people highly dislike that woman for having created time-travel. Then, we later see that if they suspect you of being a risk (or know you are due to seeing all time-lines) they will, at bare minimum, put you in an unconscious state and leave you on the floor. At worst, possibly kill you. Leading us to believe that there is something sinister in the future ... possibly a BAD time-line being created due to time-travel even being created. Fascinating concept.

[@babagalacticus]

not really; if he had been 'flagged as a risk' why allow him to go back in the 1st place? i didn't know chris hayes was moonlighting as a journeyman actor...& what's up with that vacuum?! you would think DYSON would have captured the market-share by then. LOVE that little dachshund!!!! but all in all this was top-shelf goofy fun; i'm still working it out with straws...🤖📅. from ancient egypt to 2019...hurm.

[@Annamarie40985]

baba galacticus I also enjoyed the doggie

[@babagalacticus]

@@Annamarie40985 great minds think alike 🦝🤔🦊☻🍻

[@magicmulder]

I assume someone used time travel to change the past in a way that befits him (like a politician going back to win an election he originally lost), then outlawed any changes to the timeline (which means only certain pleasure trips are allowed) to prevent anyone else from undoing it. Still one would assume it'd be easier to outlaw time travel altogether to prevent even the remote possibility of changing the past by accident (the guy could've just sneezed as he was looking over her shoulder). And not letting people travel to the one point that is guaranteed to destroy the whole construct if interfered with.

[@KevinRhoads]

The book delves into this as well and I like how they leave the idea open.

[@Calaban619]

I think i get it. History is lost because anything, and everything- can always be undone beforehand. Even the undoing. new events in causality have devolved to undoing previous events, and the only new event that is never retained is merely the most recent redo (one big waste of time). As a result- the previous versions no longer exist. Forever onward. The paradox revisited. Awesome.

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

If you haven't seen Primer, I recommend it highly. It's probably the greatest time travel movie ever made, and had a total budget of $7000. And the whole plot of Primer revolves around that idea, that once time travel exists, you have rung a bell that can't be unrung, trapping everyone and everything like a bug in amber because of the ability to go back and undo the undoings, and then undo those too, creating infinite recursions.

[@riverofmolecules]

I think it is because history is partly defined by our inability to ever interact with it. We can only piece together history from a collection of subjective observations. We are always, eternally, moving further and further away from each moment that passes. Time travel, even if it's totally passive like it is supposed to be here, ends history because it eliminates that distance. We are no longer permanently separated from the past. We can observe it from new angles, collect new information, etc. Even if we don't alter it, history is no longer history. It is simply another axis of travel. There is a short story by Ken Liu, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary", which has some similar themes.

[@قناةبيتكو]

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[@codeninja1832]

@@riverofmolecules That's what I thought at first too but the rewinding and rewriting of the event that happened makes me think it's more along the lines of what OP said.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@NoJusticeNoPeace There is better.

[@RobbieKhan]

Given that the end headlining at the bottom states "All rights reserved. All wrongs reversed" indicates to me that the company in question running the time travel machine keep an eye on activities undertaken during visits by people and anyone creating a paradox or doing wrong, will have the timeline reversed and that person being "dealt with". Unique concept and films/acted really well!

[@jime6739]

duh, did you watch? It reversed a few minutes before the end.

[@extraterrestrialcontent]

@@jime6739 Geez dude why you gotta be like that?

[@imagineer99]

The narration makes for a very clever expository device without having to do the standard "time travel" explanation thing.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

It goes on too long, though, and the background music, while appropriate, is a little too loud.

[@babagalacticus]

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself have 2 agree; it should have been more SUB-sonic thus affecting the limbic system more vitally & viscerally w/o one's CONSCIOUS emotions. a bit too spike lee. 🙄

[@donquixotedoflamingo9037]

But they blew the ending...

[@AnthonyMiyazaki]

So refreshing to see a new twist on time travel stories. Great storyline, directing, acting, cinematography, sound, etc.!!!

[@bobinthewest8559]

I agree. I thought it was an interesting and unique way to tell a time travel tale.

[@samilucille1]

All amazing though is there something I'm missing about the black guy laying flat @ the end ... Was he run over by a train or something?

[@samilucille1]

Love the actor he's a bit hawwwt

[@AnthonyMiyazaki]

@@samilucille1 They knocked him out because they saw that he was going to be a "paradox risk" (that is, he was going to screw up the "present" by messing around with the past).

[@perfectsplit5515]

@@AnthonyMiyazaki I take it that the organization's failsafe mechanism kicked in when the black guy created a paradox. It seems like they "rewound" the events back up until the point when the black guy was being selected, then "corrected" the error. It must be some kind of system of checks and balances that the organization has.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

I remember when the first time I will eventually see this...

[@jv-lk7bc]

no, thats not a memory, you just came to your old self in a dream...

[@ACJ523]

Indeed

[@hillaryclinton2415]

I saw this tomorrow, I hear

[@jasonselph6968]

for the most over explored sci-fi sub-genre, this is quite good.

[@MrSukram777]

Just clarify what this is about (I myself only understood after reading a comment and rewatching the end): The old woman is the inventor of time travel. The two men are time travelers from the future who were sent there by a company. After the black guy constantly tries to convince the woman to drop her research, his superiors (who can either see the future or monitored their trip) see him as a threat (he's creating a paradox as he couldn't have traveled back and told her if she never invented time travel). So his superiors reverse time before their journey starts, replace him with the young woman and execute him.

[@kchikwete]

Black guy was a Variant

[@justbecky5167]

Since i was a little kid, I am always obsessed with 'time travel' things... massive thanks to this short ! Its so worth it

[@veralenora7368]

This is it. This is all the future history there is after she discovered time travel. History only lasts while she only has a piece of paper, then collapses. It didn't collapse immediately, there was a future, and time travel tourism started -- one occurance -- and then -- ends. And reality is stuck in that loop of time travel becoming real.

[@learnerktm]

Found a time travel movie worthy watching after a long time

[@joeyjennings9548]

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[@scotthall4486]

I always thought the future would be covered in chrome, not pink velour.

[@DevilsDeal]

Zap Brannigan was a trend setter.

[@BangChief_AllIsOne]

Pink velour is the new chrome. Salute

[@Frostified]

Touch screens and tats

[@chrisdallapiazza5757]

Wonderful. I’ve spent my whole life secure in the knowledge that time travel is impossible because, where are the time travelers from the future? Instead I learn tonight that there are hoards of them in every nook and cranny of unobserved space. Probably at least 20 of them in the attic, behind me in the room right now. Going to sleep with my eyes open tonight!

[@jimwagner6260]

They only watch interesting people.

[@FirstLast-q4v]

​@@jimwagner6260they're watching you Masturbate now

[@gregt722]

OMG! Could this be any more thought provoking! Honestly... who’s creating these masterpieces?!? This was absolutely, by far, the most entertaining and brilliant take on time travel. Twist after twist after twist. And the biggest twist was not only the end, but reading the comments opened my eyes. I was on the edge of my seat as I watch what felt like a tour through the museum of natural history. Great job folks. Keep pumping these out... you’re helping all of us through this pandemic & depression!

[@imadrifter]

Calm down Greg, or you'll be cataloged as a high risk individual

[@username82765]

I had to watch the ending a few times but I think I got it. Many scientific discoveries aren't used to better humanity as they were intended but to profit companies. Time travel in the end is used for nothing but a tourist ride.

[@matthewhowenbrink1770]

Incredible short! I cannot begin to explain how tense I was from about 3 minutes in until the escort tried messing with things. Fascinating storytelling and the time-reverse and headphones monologue were fantastic narrativistic choices.

[@jonathanporter5223]

Damn, that was good. The intro shot was bad ass and the whole reverse sequence super cool. I loved the satire sprinkled with some dark humor throughout, too. Overall a top notch production.

[@heedmywarning2792]

You didn't fool me. The dog is an alien and was controlling the woman in order to get back to it's planet.

[@dogstar5039]

Snake jazz!

[@rudymarleyaskit4573]

@@dogstar5039 'ssss 'ss 's 'ssss.

[@robinhodson9890]

You son of a bitch...

[@davidm5707]

Sounds like a good idea for a movie subplot...

[@3Clod]

in the future, people will know the difference betwen "its" and "it's", I've seen that

[@rjcbr1191]

Dr. Bekas’ formula creates a time-line for the time traveler. This temporary time-line runs outside of but parallel to the space-time continuum. Everything past, present, and future must remain unchanged by the time traveler so as to not upset the spatial and temporal coordinates of the universe. To prevent time travelers from crossing their temporary time-line with the space-time continuum and causing a problem, Dr. Bekas embedded a Fail-Safe sub-system in her time travel formula. The temporary time line starts with all time travelers being scanned, not to discover any potential threat to the space-time continuum, but rather to detect any attempts made by the time traveler to change anything during their trip. (Think of time running backwards.) When the black dude broke the rules and tried to change the past he was permanently “tagged” and his time line was automatically rewound to just before the scanning, thus erasing it. Unfortunately, the nerdy white dude had to go with him. Starting over, the scan picked up the tag and he was prevented from proceeding. If no changes were attempted, they would have simply returned to their present.

[@jameseverett4976]

ok, but if the traveler's time line runs "outside of" but parallel to the continuum, how is he able to have any effect on the past?

[@markwarrensprawson]

That was well-smart. I've grown to really love these well-made short films over the past few months, maybe even a little more than most feature-length films that have recently come out. This is a special, special example. As it begins and we're following the ordinary woman having missed her train on the subway just walking along in a regular and very relatable daze while the men enjoying the exhibit follow at a safe distance listening to a voice detailing the entire trip as an ordinary tour guide might and we wonder what the heck we're watching here. Then the woman finds the losing lotto ticket with the numbers destined to inspire her to solve the enigma of time travel, only to be jeered at and heckled by one of the two time tourist. Then we rewind and again find ourselves wondering what in the hell might be afoot.. Finally, and speaking of a foot, or rather feet, we find ourselves at the start of the tour having witnessed evidence of the homicide of our heckler from the tour before that now has been almost completely erased and taped over, but for the memories of the tourist who toed the line. Now, that was a whole lot of, "Gee, Mister, thanks for regurgitating what we just saw. I bet you feel really clever and think the rest of us who've managed to concentrate and comprehend all thirteen and a half minutes of this film," and you're right for thinking that, and I beg your pardon. It just fascinated me that the makers of this film were able to so concisely convey what really is a pretty intricate story with loads of contradictory elements involved in its detailed story line in such a short period of time with such basic production techniques and well-executed, straightforward acting on the part of the players. And the screenwriters are absolute heroes. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but my little mind, perhaps wired in such a way as to be easily impressed, is blown. I loves it. Thank you so very much!

[@rithvikb7980]

these guys were changing their past to save future by not changing the history and here I'm fucking my future by watching all the time travel short filims

[@griffin4576]

So they are going on a time trip to see how time travel was started some people embraced it some people didn't and threw the woman in front of the train multiple times but at that point time travel was inevitable and what they did to her didnt effect time anymore because it can be controlled by someone that's overseeing the time travel history trip.

[@HussainAkbar]

That's 13 minutes that I'm never getting back

[@MyMusic-cd3do]

Unless you go back and choose not to watch. That's what I'm doing. Mostly because of the horrid background noise for the first half, and the way too noisy vacuum cleaner at the end. (The explaining thing didn't work too well for me either.) Concept was good though.

[@benjaminrivera3190]

I love to find stuff like this on KZbin. AWESOME

[@قناةبيتكو]

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[@donquixotedoflamingo9037]

How is this story awesome?

[@dukenecromancer245]

Don Quixote Doflamingo You will forever not know the answer. Which will lead you to a discovery you stupid ******

[@scottyj6226]

I love the olde timey music at the end.

[@DevilTravels]

What kind of guy doesn't go to the bathroom before going on a trip?

[@sarahoshea9603]

All women do this, men are 50/50

[@DevilTravels]

@@sarahoshea9603 It sure doesn't seem like it when traveling with women. :)

[@sternamc919sterna3]

Especially when wearing an onesie😉. It can be cumbersome in WC.

[@dystopicstate]

This is one of the best sci fi I've seen in my life. I really hope you guys get to do the series. I already want that jacket.

[@bernzeppi]

Actually, that was excellent! A rare gem.

[@amazingessence2368]

So you can maybe explain to me the last few minutes and why the other man was layin on the floor..??🤷‍♂️

[@kennethblocher6110]

This is like the time I was minding my own business, wondering through the Infinite Forest and stumbled upon Saint-14 in the past. He eventually gave me the shotgun that I gave him hundreds of years ago. I'd never seen this shotgun. Later, I gave him this shotgun but several hundred years before he just gave it back to me. Aye, the Perfect Paradox. I love these thought experiments in time travel! Another of my favorites is when Fry goes back in time and discovers that he's his own grandpa. "All's Well That Roswell"

[@sternamc919sterna3]

Those onesies look confortable 😀

[@morenofranco9235]

Absolutely paradoxical. Thanks for the trip.

[@KevinRhoads]

This is based on a book! Written by David Matthew Olson! I am very excited because I like what he was investigating and looking forward to see if he accomodated input by some of the early readers.

[@ppzzus]

Can you tell me where to get the book?

[@comcastjohn]

Very cool short. These shorts are better than most hour and a half to two hour movies. If it ever became possible, I would like to have seen Ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and such. Great short my friends, keep up the great work!

[@sternamc919sterna3]

You have plenty more philosophers at present. Frequently they are called "fools", "clowns", and in the future they will be considered visionaries. Not much changes in human nature 😉

[@comcastjohn]

@@sternamc919sterna3 so true, so true!

[@id104335409]

Just when you think time travel is overused and boring - a refreshing idea. Well done!

[@TAROTAI]

not from _where_ I am

[@kome360]

Interestingly, Bekkas begins her crowning theorem by wildly altering Einstein's, from E=mc^2 to E=mc^3. The implication is that a portion of exponential energy is dedicated to the contribution of the matter's transition from one frame of causality to the next, and the only reason Einstein didn't see it was because he literally couldn't - he lived in three dimensions and aged through four, but this wildly theorem takes at least five. The fascinating part is that it could be E=mc^infinity and all that excess energy is being shunted across infinite dimensions.

[@james5460]

Quite good and thought-provoking. Love the bursts of humanity in a genre that favors a cold, sterile, overly analytical narrative.

[@jaketheripper7385]

But sci-fi tends to be the most human and thought-provoking genre of them all! Lol how could you say that??? Clearly you need to have someone give you a guided exposure tour through the sci-fi media library if that's how you view it on the whole. You must be one of those people that imagines the extent of science fiction to begin and end with Star Wars and Star Trek, so by that metric you might tend to disregard it on the whole. It would be a damn shame too honestly because you would be depriving yourself of some truly remarkable pieces of media; film, television, and literature alike. Also by the way, Star Trek is actually pretty damn full of humanity if you know where to look. It's widely regarded as one of the most human franchises in the sci-fi community. The problem is that normies and the easily bored/distracted can't get past the heavy handed use of techno-babble and its active involvement in the development of the plot in various ways. I can understand that to a degree, but not only is this something that can be learned and eventually understood, one does ALSO learn to overlook and disregard a lot of this in favor of looking for and focusing on the compelling aspects of the narrative and the colorful cast of characters who all become very real - very "human" if you will 😉 - rather quickly. You don't have to know what quantum slipstream flux is or how a warp reactor generates its matter/anti-matter reaction in order to produce sufficient power to maintain a stable warp field, you only have to understand why Spock is constantly at odds with himself and what makes him such a good friend and a damn fine science officer. Or find yourself wishing and hoping that Beverly and Jean Luc will finally cut the tension with a laser saw and get together ❤, or wonder if Seven of Nine will ever actually maintain and display any character growth/development and hold on to it for at least one friggin' episode (spoiler alert: she does not...) The point is there is an abundance of humanity and plenty to love and get invested in when it comes to Trek, techno-babble and the sterile utopian veneers aside. At any rate, if those are aspects of the series that you find unappealing and particularly distracting for whatever reason, I recommend checking out the "Star Trek: Enterprise" series from the early 2000s starring Scott Bakula. It revolves around a ship and crew on the first long term exploratory mission in the earliest days of Star Fleet and it depicts a newly United Earth before the formation of the Federation when they were first beginning to strike out into the stars and forge a pressence on a galaxy-wide stage. The technology of the time is a far-cry from the convenience, enlightenment, and cleanliness of the 24th century, and concepts like matter replication and force fields were still mere theory. They had a full-time chef aboard the ship for Christ's sake, and the only means of defense they had available were "phase cannons", which are basically just a small step above a glorified flashlight. Honestly it's just utterly baffling how they didn't all die horribly within the first week of their mission. They're like a bunch of toddlers trying to navigate a cabinet full of fine china while blindfolded, and every other dish in the cabinet is secretly topped and/or festooned with a different species of venomous pit viper. It's much more "hands-on" and "dirty" than any of the series that take place afterward, even in comparison to the The Original Series. As my now dearly departed best friend and fellow Trek enthusiast - God rest him - would say; "...'Enterprise' was less techno-babble and creative solutions and more 'hit it with a wrench'..." Couldn't have said it better myself. So if you have trouble with "The Next Generation" for example or even "The Original Series", "Enterprise" might be an easier and more enjoyable way for you to get into the Trek. Plus it does take place first chronologically in the Trek-o-Verse timeline, so it kinda works out if you were to then move on to the other series afterwards. Idk man, give it a shot! And talk to one of your turbo-nerdy friends about introducing you to some other decent hard sci-fi media! If going purely by your comment, I bet you a Klondike bar that you will end up falling in love with a bunch of other sci-fi titles out there. In the modern interpretation of the genre, spectacle and mindless entertainment tend to take a back seat for the most part. It's almost always about something more nowdays. We've come a LONG way from "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers"... haha.

[@thrisbt1]

hope i live long enough for the cool onesies - hope there'll be ones with the feet with the grippy bottom !

[@domiracles9559]

the U.S. Space Force was created this year... for real... and look up, on KZbin, Elon Musk's interview with the U.S. Air Force, last week... for more about cool uniforms... color-coded onesies uniforms will probably start there... like Star Trek uniforms and then work their way into civilian contractor uniforms... each color of uniform designating a different category of worker...

[@professord1522]

Sorry, but I hated the onesies... :)

[@bobinthewest8559]

There will never be any onesies in my wardrobe

[@thrisbt1]

@@bobinthewest8559 you going neked when Supreme Leader Trump only imports Tronesies* TM* (because they'r cheaper - less scissor cutting - also safer for the sweatshop kids) after covid19 hits past food and on to textiles ? ...i bet it gets pretty chilly in your neck of the woods.......burrrrrr........

[@pirate_jacks]

you can make that yourself, looks like its made of neoprene,

[@qikboty]

Love how the woman from the future is vacuuming after they inserted the "The future is female" message. Brilliant

[@zanderstone2898]

Nice catch

[@jv-lk7bc]

pretty sure the vaccuuming was just set dressing that they decided to throw in .. cuz why not? I'm sure those fuzzy surfaces collected lint they didn't know they had .. like instantaneously.

[@iwanevans2443]

Why do you feel the need to be so sexist?

[@sternamc919sterna3]

There has been an endless supply of dust through the ages of our Universe.

[@icedqq]

??

[@tyriciankelly9185]

This was creative, although I didn't understand it.

[@Hecameup]

U changed something you wrote in the past 😂

[@troybrown2802]

Timey wimey

[@billyandrew]

@@troybrown2802 Who? 😜😂😂😂

[@Nonye81]

@@troybrown2802 Timey wimey wibbly wobbly.

[@AdrianBroadnax]

a society intelligent enough to create time travel will also be intelligent enough to install safety measures to protect everyone from idiots.

[@gerardvinet8448]

Everytime time travel is mentioned , they always go back for the negative aspects of time recovery moments , but nice , clean enviromental experience in psychology .

[@PhilJonesIII]

Don't know why but this had me on the edge of my seat for a while.

[@zash9826]

One of the best on-time travel I have seen so far

[@learemington1700]

If time travel existed we would be inundated with tourists from the future

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

No, we'd be inundated with tourists from another Universe. The mathematics of time travel don't violate any known physical laws as long as you never re-enter the same frame of space/time. That means you can never return from when you came. Each frame of space/time is a separate thing, always occuring. You go back ten years into the past and what you do has no effect on the frame of space/time from which you came. And you can't go back there. You can go to an entirely new frame of space/time which may be nearly indistinguishable from the the original, but it isn't the original.

[@typograf62]

Try the novella: Let's go to Golgatha.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

"we would be inundated with tourists from the future" How do you know we aren't?

[@jv-lk7bc]

@@typograf62 ...and Novella in the lead coming into the home stretch .. Golgotha making its move Now Golgotha in the lead.. and its Golgotha by a head!

[@cmorgan63]

Cleverly done! Excellent casting and the narration is fantastic - imagination should never have limits

[@joelee5875]

I just wanted to say thank's for the posting "A smile to remember"

[@amandaroman3471]

I never expected to enjoy this- I mean the time travel stuff has been done to death but wow man am I glad I gave it a chance - wicked cool concept and love the way it’s told - I was hanging onto every word.

[@arnolddalby5552]

Time travel was actually re-discovered in 1925 when the Emerald tablets of Thoth the Atlantean were translated from the original Atlantean. Thoth told his people where the Earth's time field exists and how to access it. You see time can be phased through the zero point of density or the Earth's magnetic field. Anyway, occasionally the Earth's time field opens and folk accidentally timeslip usually backwards but occasionally forwards in time.

[@peterhumphreys7078]

I wondered how I ended up in 2020 - thanks.

[@ungorilaenrd]

11:14 you can see how the black guy was seated on the coach, that means he traveled to the past. Later you can se how the woman is who are seated, that means the final scene it's a alternative time line when the black guy doesn't traveled, becouse they know it he damaged the time in one line.... that's why the device in the eyes to recognize who did that, that's why he didn't traveled in this line

[@johnkean6852]

Brilliant - the black guy should get an Oscar 👍

[@Squicx]

the future of museums is this...

[@Kenabukanyo]

Well , we do have some old buildings in which we literally get back in time after going in .. We just don't see ourselves or call ourselves time travelers ;)

[@dkting]

great summary

[@jamesstewart1598]

I love short films and some modern films. My gripe, especially with the latter is, not enough dialogue. I love it when I'm given it in excess.

[@gislandgyal4982]

My favorite kind of films, loved it, great job guys! wish it was longer lol

[@ObviouslyCrap]

When the wind-back took us beyond the beginning and recommenced, I was reminded immediately of one of my favorites: Christopher Nolan's _Memento_ . While not employing the same dual-timeline technique in that film (good so!), this worked extremely well in making the film ending as intriguing as its main story line (a tour-guided time-travel accounting of the birth of time travel), giving viewers the feeling of the time travel adventure itself and leaving them craving for more. The only downside of this short film is its seemingly irrelevant title "Dirty Machines" which I found had nothing to do with the content whatsoever and, consequently, does not do justice to the film.

[@ObviouslyCrap]

@Zedd Ruinstar In that case it should be _Dirty Room_ . There were no machines in the film (except for the vacuum cleaner, which is, as the name suggests, clean, not dirty... oh, and I suppose the underground train, which looked very clean to me.)

[@nicoleswan3053]

I personally felt that the title gave incredible justice and context to the film. The dirty machine is what preceeded but more succeeded "the end of history"... note the "guide" or 'potential for paradox' being dragged out with a blood trail... it's more than questionable why time wasn't rewound to before this point and how many times time had to be rewound to achieve the goal... I feel like it needs a sequel, at least!

[@mohsenraghian210]

@@nicoleswan3053 Have you seen the movie "Thrill Seekers?"

[@nicoleswan3053]

@@mohsenraghian210 I don't think so, I'll have to check it out tonight :)

[@killCountZero]

Dirty Machines I think are the moderators of time-travel here. Since, they have been manipulating time without any ethical or moral concerns. They are working to achieve a perfect world with no remorse for human benevolence. As machines. The dirty machines simply "clean" whatever humanity before time-travel has "contaminated".

[@shakaama]

you should market this. it was rather good. and i found it refreshing that the black guy wasn't some thug / pimp / drugee / gay / rapper / etc... like in every hollywood movie, where we're relegated to black guy #5. I also found it refreshing that he was in charge of the trip and then IS the plot twist. I don't think you know what great thing you have done.

[@loveller]

The birth of time travel is one event. Why wasn't the train platform full of millions of tourist? No matter when the tourist departed from home they are all arriving at the same place in time.

[@houstontx68]

Clearly they are able to rewind the trip and go one at a time.

[@loveller]

This seemed like a business or at least a tour. If the trip is rewound each time then previous travelers would not have taken the trip. They can't retain the experience if it is reversed each time. The time and destination is the same for everyone that wants to see this event.

[@jasontheconner6120]

@@loveller that FINALLY makes the ending make sense to me!!!! Thank you.

[@akashbond862]

Thanks for telling me the difference between a sci-fi short and a sci-fi short film

[@Wawwior]

The title alone blew my mind

[@canadadelendaest8687]

"The psychological trauma of a completely chronological existence" I know that feel

[@jtreal]

Mandela effect is already proof of alternating time and future.

[@jimjimellell]

Once again, I forgot that I really do not like time travel videos. Dammitt!!

[@Neutronious]

Well done on many levels. Very cool that we got to see a dead end paradox branch and how they ‘correct’ it. So in the future, where ‘the future is female!’, they still vacuum, and the black guy is still being kept down by the ‘man’ and portrayed as the acehole bad guy in movies hasn’t changed much....very subtle.

[@sup2069]

I caught that too. He couldn't just have just been a chaperone as implied.

[@jleggett5995]

Wow. That was a very strange and particular kind of tense. The music was very effective.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

What this needs is more violin strumming.

[@kronk358]

IKR. I almost shut it off there.

[@candycane45]

"The bartender says, "Hey! Get out! We don't serve your kind here!"............................................................................ ..............................................................................A time-traveler walks into a bar." Joke by SIRI to my mother. LOL!

[@leewardstyle]

Escort's [actions] suggest not a first-timer. But the rewind is strange to me. Why would The Powers That Be (TPTB) need to micro-manage the players in each thread if they have the power to rewind the tape? They only need rewind even further back and just screen high-risk temporal-tourist without icing them. But it's shot beautifully! Bravo!

[@lds9312]

This is freaking awesome. What a neat twist on time travel movies.

[@InmyDufel]

This is what the adjustment bureau was supposed to he

[@classiql]

Most people of this Era believe time travel is impossible because they've never met a time traveler who came back and told them it was real.

[@user-avatar808]

Well done! That was a different way to present time travel. The Timeline movie based on the novel by Michael Crichton was done well. It changed some things in the book but I thought it was well done and a good adaptation. They focused on the concept of a Worm Hole directly connecting a specific space and time in the past (1437 France) and the present 2003. It was decently done with consideration of the physics and enjoyable with the late Paul Walker and Gerard Butler as part of the case. It avoided all the paradox questions by showing the time travel was directly related to our timeline when Gerard Butler stayed behind and they found evidence of his life when the others returned to the future.

[@kbardan6743]

8:31 i got goosebumps when the narrator says "The birth of time travel" wtf

[@KGAlbertini]

Interesting idea. I’m a little confused while the music was playing a shepherd tone the entire time. It built a type of tension that seemed somewhat anticlimactic if... I won’t spoil the ending. Well done overall though.

[@carlosidelone8064]

An excellent serious, but ironically humorous time travel exploration. Very good imaginative production.

[@hamentaschen]

"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

[@ChrisSmith-bw1nt]

Thanks George, Marine Biologist. Lol.

[@greenley77]

Is that a Titleist?

[@CP-28]

Hahaha....I liked this one! Nice plot, unexpected twist and sense of subtle humor. Very talented team. Well done! :)

[@dkting]

agreed!

[@MJ-ge6jz]

This Time Travel short exceeded my intelligence... WTF?

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Just treat it as a half-hour movie by watching it twice in a row.

[@ungorilaenrd]

I just post the explanation there are two temporal lines, one when the black guy traveled, another one when the black guy doesn't

[@magicmulder]

Future society sends people back to the past for research/entertainment. They have technology to "preview" the result of people being sent back so they can stop anyone who'd change the past from actually going. Those who do so deliberately are treated as terrorists and executed. The first two thirds of the movie were the "preview", then came the reveal that they're still waiting to actually go.

[@jrh5067]

Momento Mori. Not even time travel can stop that one.

[@tjkoker]

An noutstanding storyline. Great acting and screenplay. Really enjoyed this angle on time travel. Cheers.

[@reazallykhan]

When I get on the train ,it takes me to the future

[@ianhopcraft9894]

Top tip - Try watching this again last Thursday and you'll see it has different ending now, also the plexi-glass lizard chariot scene will soon be edited out.

[@qaphelanimthembu8514]

Who else is still watching this in 2033?

[@jeanlamontfilms5586]

Nice, “The End(Purpose) of History” is the “changing” of the past. I think this film does good job of showing how an attempt to change the past is not only impossible but futile since History is always already a constant changing of the past.

[@strawberrypez2938]

That would be awesome if this DID become a series, like the director and writer wants. I want MORE! In the end (or rather the beginning), because the "possible dissident's" feet were in the time travel room, is this how he was able to go back to 2019 and attempt to stop the creator of time travel? "What is that?" was said by the main guy....

[@DaveoMathias]

April Cobb Writer/Director here! Thanks so much! I hope to do more of this too and explain what’s really going on!

[@Live-Life-Freely]

If I had a time travel machine I would throw it in the garbage and then tell everyone I had a working time machine.

[@hungrychowhound11612]

I throughly enjoyed this. It's got a bit of dark irony in it. But wonderfully done and edited, awesome work. Think I'll watch it again. Thnaks.

[@AceTycho]

Wow! Surprisingly good! I'm not surprised much anymore with short films.

[@moseszero3281]

It is hard to do heavy narration good and this is good. Love the creepy dystopian vibe as well.

[@Williamb612]

the past does not exist, it is merely a remembrance in our brains. Eliminate the memory and there is nothing to remember. When the supposed past was occurring, it was actually the present at that time. So revisiting the past is not what backward time travel is about…it is about visiting the present in another time…whether the present was before your present or after your present…all of it is the present.

[@randommm-light]

I will upvote this video every time just for the smooth editing and good narration, but the graphic on his jacket says it all. That second escort looks like the real risk..

[@hessamlatube]

1:06 that girl :))

[@guardianoftruth1468]

Oh wow, this is a great idea! I've always wanted to see this kind of story, THANK YOU!!!! "The highest of fives" Script Writers and everyone who made it a reality!

[@flomotion8430]

Best SciFi EVER

[@geoben9801]

Time... Einstein postulated that it's a 4th element. We're all so concerned about it. What exactly is it? Is it possible to manipulate time? Is time travel actually a possibility? And what about the implications of time travel? If it were possible, should history be altéred in even just a small way? Would it be the right thing to do... What if we could see what the future holds for us? Would you want to know what's in your future? Well ? Come on! Make a decision! I haven't got all day!!!.

[@farrier2708]

That moment is a significant point in 'history'. Assuming that many people would want to experience it, shouldn't the station have been a bit more crowded? No! The moment only existed in the T'traveller's time line. - So others visiting the moment would have their own time line? - Yes! And I thought 'Predestination' made my brain hurt

[@apocali3]

Man the violinists must be tiered

[@HubertofLiege]

apocali3 and tired

[@Turbonilla]

With that music I already feel very anxious

[@MarySmith-c8n]

@2:22 but you can't say as humans, none of the time travelers (from the future) didn't make a mistake. killed a bug. something as small as that would change the course that time would take.

[@magicmulder]

I liked this a lot, though I would've expected an even more dystopian reveal, like the future world being completely destroyed, yet the belief that "any change to the past makes it worse" still persisting, maybe even like some kind of religion. That would've given more meaning to the casual mention of "why not kill Hitler".

[@Richard-gl7xu]

The 'moment' time travel was used it would instantly be available across all time, and as that's never been shown its clearly impossible.

[@bigdawg1353]

The placement of adverts just exactly at the critical moments of the film must have required some time travel displacement to get it accurate 🤣