A Brief History of Time Travel (2018)

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	Year of first release: 2018
	Director: Gisella Bustillos
	Actors: Ted Chiang, Satyanarayana Dasa, Erik D. Demaine
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 26.07.2020, FANTASPOA2020, 14" computer screen.
Synopsis: A journey through the evolution of time travel; from it origins, it's evolution and influence in science fiction, to the exciting possibilities in the future.
Review: This short 65-min Documentary is quite nice to give an overview of Time Travel in History. It does not spend too much time on movie examples like I thought it would have, but rather covers the origins of Time Travel in myths and literature, looks at the spiritual aspects like meditation, Buddhism, shamanism, and even tackles the real science of the thing. No wonder the title is directly inspired by Stephen Hawking's popular-science book on cosmology A Brief History of Time. Again, we get some movie connections via ComiCon attendees and mention to the most famous Time Travel movies like Back to the Future, but that's not the core of the Documentary. I found that it nicely covered all the subject I was curious about when I started watching. Thanks for the programming of the FANTASPOA Festival, as many others taking place online this year, for advertising this kind of Documentary to the public.
Rating: 6 /10