Ben Brand's eternal end to never-endings

Based on one of Andy Weir’s (author of The Martian) short stories, The Egg, Ben Brand crafts an alternate afterlife that embodies a world of wonder. 

A man dies. It’s fine, God says to him, don’t feel bad. Everyone dies. What follows is a conversation between a man who died in a grisly car crash and god, or at least, the creator. In between cuts of humanity at its worst, best, mundane, and mediocre, the man gets shown, slowly and then all at once, the expansive, immersive, nonduality of the whole world. And then, of course, it’s time for Re/Entry.

Brand takes a condensed musing on an alternate theology and creates something truly brilliant. Each edit, each choice of character, coalesces into a memory of multitudes. With exceptional editing and a slow start in a woodland setting that slowly turns bizarre, Brand’s meditation is a new, more expansive retelling, full of sentiment without nostalgia. Re/Entry was produced by Studio Ruba and edited by Patrick Schonwille.