Documentary follows two men building real-life time machines

Don’t you wish you could go back in time?

Maybe there are things in life you would do differently, or re-do all over again. Maybe there are people you have lost that you’d like to see again.

It’s not uncommon for us to wish we could fix the mistakes we’ve made in the past, or want to jump to the future to see what lies ahead.

The problem is, time travel does not exist.

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Our fantasies of Doc and the DeLorean travelling through space and time are limited to cinematic adventures. We have to accept that there is no chance that jumping into a hot tub with a few of our friends will magically warp us back to the past.

But there are two men who will not simply accept it.

Jay Cheel takes us on a journey in his documentary titled, “How to Build a Time Machine” which documents two men, Rob Niosi and Ronald Mallett, who refuse to believe time travel is impossible.

Rob Niosi, has spent the last 11 years of his life building a replica of the time machine from George Pal’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ famous classic novel, The Time Machine. What began as a 3-month project has taken over his the last decade of his life.

Why the obsession with perfecting the full-scale time machine replica? Niosi wants to capture the impression he had as a kid when he first witnessed the beautiful machine.

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“I can work on this time machine for the rest of my life … keep re-doing parts to get them better and better,” he says in the documentary, adding that he’s had trouble leaving his obsession alone.

Ronald Mallett is the other man in which the film documents. He was just a young boy when he lost his father to a heart attack and his world was never the same. Obsessed with the physics of it all, Mallett’s goal is to build a real life time machine so that he can go back and save his father’s life.

In the trailer for the upcoming documentary, Mallett says, “I would say it is fair to call what I was doing an obsession. I was obsessed with wanting to see my father again … and I was obsessed with trying to find out how one could control time.”

The death of his father forced Mallett to segregate himself from the world and find peace in science fiction, a career in physics and an obsession with creating time travel.

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