Primer

PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage.  While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want.  Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face.  Dealing with the consequences is the next.



"An ingenious first film made on a budget of about $7,000 by a former engineer and self-taught filmmaker about the perils of ingenuity." -- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES



"This no-budget brainteaser from Dallas native Shane Carruth offers ample intellectual rewards." -- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Alluringly knotty." -- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY



"A brilliant little indie thriller." -- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER



"Writer-director Shane Carruth makes a low-tech, low-budget entry into a staple of science fiction and manages to make it feel like a genre you've never been to before." -- Bruce Newman, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS



"Its analog-egghead approach may be the freshest thing the genre has seen since 2001." -- Dennis Lim, VILLAGE VOICE