That Time is Now

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"Why does this keep happening to us?" Doctor Wokozi asks the same question each time she meets Professor Seva. She has done it seven times already and this is her last chance. Despite the experimental success of Time-travel in 2060, developed with the help of Quantex Ai, the system has strict limitations. Human biology cannot withstand more than eight jumps and Spacetime entanglement is unstable. So, each trip that she takes back is fraught with danger and uncertainty about its duration. Equipped with a special pair of tracking goggles, Doctor Wokozi has been able to locate Professor Seva space-time coordinates in 2030. He lives alone with his plants, in an abandoned building - a London hydroponic station decommissioned by its corporate owner. Each of her previous visits has been unsuccessful in convincing the reclusive genius to give up life in his current timeline and join her to save the world. She is now becoming desperate to finally transfer his consciousness into a storage device, so that she may bring him back to 2060, where his expertise on plants behaviour could help restore the biosphere and rescue humanity from extinction. 'That Time is Now' invites us to reflect on what makes us human, when facing the perils of an ecological collapse, through the themes of consciousness, steadfastness, and selflessness. Are humans truly independent entities? or are we all entangled parts of a greater universal cosmic reality? This short film is also an experimental proof of concept, exploring elements of much larger fictional worlds created by writer-director Henry Chebaane, at the philosophical intersection of his graphic novels 'The Panharmonion Chronicles' and 'Kingdom United'.

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