Watch the multiverse movie Daniels made before Everything Everywhere All At Once
There’s good news out there for fans of the stunningly ambitious martial-arts multiverse comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once who are just discovering the work of directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan. The duo, often credited just as “Daniels,” only have one other feature film to their name — the deliriously weird Swiss Army Man, in which Paul Dano befriends the rotting, waterlogged corpse of Daniel Radcliffe, and they learn important life lessons together. But Daniels have a long history in short films, music videos, and special projects, and looking through their library of past work, it’s easy to find enjoyably weird and well-crafted stories that come from the same special-effects-driven, reality-warping sensibility.
In particular, it’s worth checking out their eight-minute short Possibilia, an interactive experiment billed as “an interactive love story set in the multiverse… whatever that means.” Completed in 2016 as a technological proof-of-concept experiment for Xbox Live Entertainment, Possibilia follows disintegrating couple Rick (Girls’ Alex Karpovsky) and Pollie (The Mindy Project’s Zoe Jarman) through an eight-minute fight. At many steps along the way, users can choose different paths through that fight, which might send Rick and Pollie out into the garden, upstairs, or into flashbacks to other points in their lives. As the branches expand, the versions of them multiply, until they’re fighting amid many other possible versions of themselves, all having the exact same argument.
Where Everything Everywhere All At Once ultimately looks into the abyss of life and finds a hard-won sense of joy there, Possibilia feels much more cynical, because no matter what choices the viewer makes, Pollie and Rick
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