Primer (DVD)

A few years ago I caught this bizarre movie on BBC2 called PI and found myself really enjoying it even though I never really "got" or understood what it was actually about. It seemed to be about a mathematical genius, suffering from OCD, who had come up with some kind of revolutionary formulae which some very sinister people apopeared to be after. Or maybe that was all in his head..... Anyway, PRIMER feels like a very similar movie....in that, for most of the film, you're not really quite sure what the frak is going on. A group of "science geeks" get together once or twice a week to tinker about with 8th grade physics in their garage and ...

Primer Most people will have at least heard of the term ‘garage band’, the phenomenon of the early nineties where friends who practised and made music in their garages started making it big; I think Metallica were possibly the biggest band to start under that definition. ‘Primer’ introduces us to ‘garage scientists’, four friends who have full time jobs but who get together regularly at Aaron’s (Shane Carruth) house in Dallas, Texas to work on inventions, ideas and technology in his garage. They have set up lab equipment and seem to have had reasonable success. The meeting we join them at involves mailing off orders they have received for their ...

Every year a lot of films get put out there which are generally devoid of soul, character and a decent story. The majority of these films cost anything between $50 million and north of a $100 million. But every once in a while a film comes along that has been made for less than the catering budget on a major Hollywood production. One such film is Primer. Actor/Writer/Producer/Director/Editor/Cinematographer/Composer Shane Carruth was a former engineer who spent three years teaching himself the principles of filmmaking. He then used his new found skills to make this movie pretty much by himself with a small cast and crew backed by an original ...