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Writer:
Jamin Winans (writer)
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Two Turntables and a Time Machine
Plot:
A mysterious DJ is sent to a city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our everyday lives. | add synopsis
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Jamin Winans' Ink Puts A New Spin On Piracy
 (From LateFilmFull. 10 November 2009, 10:34 AM, PST)

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Cast

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Raymond Andrew Bailey ... Drug Dealer
Cesar Bejarano ... Tough Cholo 1
Brandon Carrillo ... Armed Cholo

Troy Garner ... Businessman

Jamey Geston ... Little Girl

Gale Grove ... Elderly Woman
Jonny Hayz II ... Scratch

Megan Heffernan ... Mother

Kerry Knuppe ... Reading Girl
Pooch ... Dog

Jeffrey Richardson ... Shy Guy
Mike Saleeb ... Tough Cholo 2
Alan Shackelford ... Elderly Man
Bama Slama ... Breakdancer
Aaron Strobel ... Bicycler

J. Michael Weiss ... Concerned Man
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USA:8 min
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Fun Stuff

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The producer, Joe Sekiya, has a cameo as the guy buying drugs from the drug dealer. more
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Featured in Toofy Film Fest 2005: HD Showcase (2005) (TV) more

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fate, free will, and providence, 31 May 2009
10/10
Author: MAN from United States

The film portrays a supernatural DJ who "falls" to earth and tries to bring harmony to a complex city scene by modifying nature in modest ways through manipulations of his turntables and mixer.

The identity of the DJ is only hinted at through various symbols which can be interpreted to indicate that he is none other than one of the fallen angels mentioned in various mystical texts.

However, though the film revolves around the DJ and is seen through his eyes, the film is not about the DJ but rather about man and his world. It is about the nature of creation and man's interactions within creation. It is about the interplay between providence an free will.

The film depicts three attempts by the "DJ" to achieve harmonious accord. In the DJ's first attempt, he displays smug confidence that the world functions according to hard-determinism. This approach is found wanting and the "DJ" is forced to refine his approach to account for various human factors, demonstrating the philosophical view that perhaps the world works according to soft-determinism. However, once again, the "DJ" finds that the human condition does not accord with such simplistic definition.

He thus realizes that he must take into a great many factors, including what amounts to all of human history; and even still he must invest himself completely, in what can only be termed "divine providence", to insure the harmonious solution to the city scene.

A complete analysis of this deep film can be found at: www.divreinavon.com/spin.htm

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