Summary
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Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
hits Cinequest Film Festival with a delightful cast including Felicia Day, Joel McHale, Keith David, and Danny Trejo. - Director Stimson Snead uses time travel to explore extreme comedic scenarios, black holes, and more.
- The film delves into self-acceptance and self-love through the lens of a misanthropic loner’s suicidal quest..
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox is traveling through time to the Cinequest Film Festival in March, after filming wrapped in early 2023 in Spokane, Washington. “Inspired by heavy drinking and poor life choices,” as the film suggests, Stimson Snead’s sci-fi comedy film has a stacked cast of charmers — Felicia Day, Danny Trejo, Keith David, Joel McHale, and more, led by Samuel Dunning as the titular mad scientist, Tim Travers, a misanthrope who messes with time and the universe when he tries to kill his younger self.
Check out the trailer above. The full synopsis for Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox reads as follows:
“It is called the Time Travelers Paradox, in which a scientist creates a time machine and kills their younger self, so that a man who should not — can not exist — somehow does. That is the paradox, and paradoxes are impossible. Meet the man who has created it: Tim Travers,
a reclusive mad scientist
whose stated mission in life is to stand alone with God at the end of time, and tell the bastard off.“In the course of his adventure, Tim Travers will take on the mercenary gang whose stolen plutonium powers his machine, challenge an Alex Jones-esque podcaster to a battle of wits, create a black hole, meet the one woman alive crazier than him, clone himself, destroy the universe, make a new one, and maybe — just maybe — learn to love himself at last.”
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox previously participated at the Berlinale’s European Film Market this month and Guerrilla Rep Media oversaw the marketing and distribution of the film. Prior to the release of the film, director Stimson Snead made a short film version of The Time Traveler’s Paradox that also starred Samuel Dunning and was released in 2021.
The director’s statement from Stimson Snead reads as follows:
“So many stories about time travel use it as a means to explore emotions and the human condition. Aren’t you sick of that? If yes, then
Tim Travels
is the answer, a film that leans into the “what ifs,” “ands,” or “buts,” and explores them to their most extreme comedic conclusion. Time travel paradoxes, splinter realities, holo-universes, entropy, black holes, and the creation of Gods. It’s all here and it’s… It’s a whole thing.”
Prior to its time at the Cinequest Film Festival, Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox was an official selection of The Mysticon Film Festival, The Los Angeles Sci-Fi Film Festival, The Destincy City Film Festival, The Boston SciFi Film Fest, SpIFF Spokane International Film Festical, and the Shockfest Film Festival, something which Snead praised on social media.
Snead also previously explained the film to local Spokane, WA station KREM:
“This ended up being a story about self-acceptance and about self-love,” Snead shared. “The entire meta joke of the original short is he is basically in a state of perpetual self-harm, usually played for laughs. So, rather than move away from that, for the future, we decided to double down and actually get into what this says about the psychology of the character, using the time travel as a fun metaphor to play with that. And it just turned out really beautifully. At least, I hope it turned out really beautifully.”
Audiences at the Cinequest Film Festival will be able to see for themselves Saturday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hammer Theatre Center in San Jose, and Wednesday, March 13 at 2:20 p.m. at the same theater. You can find tickets and more information here.
