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Half-Life

A physicist's machine for retrieving the past returns her own murder, timestamped next Thursday, and every minute she pulls to stop it erases her brother.

Physicist Kit Beiler has built a machine that draws a single minute out of the past and plays it back as a silver, faceless echo. Searching for the night her father died, she hears something louder: her own death on the Tannery Street footbridge, timestamped this Thursday at 23:14. Every minute she draws to find her killer erases half of what she remembers of the people in it, and nearly every minute holds the brother she raised.

50 minFilm first. Four-part series as a stretch goalReleases within 90 days of fundingMade with AI by Beget Media

The film is complete in 50 minutes. If it funds, a four-part series opens as a stretch goal, with the film as episode one.

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Why is 2011 silent?

Deaths are supposed to be the loudest thing the Well can hear. So why does it answer TARGET SILENT for the night her father died on that bridge?

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What is Celia measuring?

The evaluator never asks how the machine works, only what it cost. What is the fund really studying?

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Record or memory?

The Well gives you a perfect recording and takes the memory from everyone in it. If you could keep only one of someone you love, which would you keep?

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