Cube²: Hypercube

by Sean Hood, Ernie Barbarash, and Lauren McLaughlin, directed by Andrzej Sekula

A cast of ~~thousands~~ nine (it just seems like thousands) is trapped in the Cube, sometimes called the Tesseract, where time and space are distorted. Time travel may be involved, since we see at least two characters meet themselves, but it’s too surreal for me to know for sure.

— Michael Main

If any of these numbers are prime, then the room is trapped!

Cube²: Hypercube by Sean Hood, Ernie Barbarash, and Lauren McLaughlin, directed by Andrzej Sekula (München Fantasy Filmfest, 29 July 2002).

Ticking Clock

by John Turman, directed by Ernie Barbarash

Investigative reporter Lewis Hicks, who doesn’t trust cops, pursues a gory time-traveling serial murderer who’s tracking down all those people whom he thinks did him wrong in life.

I’m surprised that this movie never made it to the theaters in the states. It generated good tension for a Fugitive-type police-don’t-the-protagonist type of story. On the other hand, the ending shows zero comprehension of the grandfather paradox or universes that split upon time travel, but never mind.

— Michael Main

Lewis: What if you could kill Hitler or Manson when they were a child?
Polly: No way. They’re children. They’re not Hilter or Manson, not yet. No.

Ticking Clock by John Turman, directed by Ernie Barbarash (direct-to-video, USA, 4 January 2011).

Ernie Barbarash

writer, director