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Nocturnal Doubling (2004)

Nocturnal Doubling poster
Directed by
Daniel Cockburn
Country
Canada

How it feels

A person experiences a reality where identical copies of themselves appear in the same space. The film explores a philosophical idea about how we understand location and identity.

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What happens

Nocturnal Doubling is a 2004 Canadian short experimental film by video artist Daniel Cockburn based on a thought experiment in Henri Poincaré's essay The Relativity of Space. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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