Collision Course - Nolan Westerfield

Film
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Collision Course is a film that attempts to measure scale and probability in the landscape of contemporary romance. Framed through glimpses of an introductory astronomy course, an everyday encounter reaches cosmic proportions.

Collision Course

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Collision Course follows the mirrored experiences of two college students as they struggle to find a meaningful relationship in their daily lives. Be it walking around campus, relaxing with their friends, or even going on blind-dates, both seem unable to find anyone they can genuinely connect with. These struggles are given significant and increasing scale when poetically tied to the cosmos itself, with an introductory astronomy course serving to frame these characters’ daily lives. Will the two star-crossed lovers be able to find one another?

A woman leans against the wall of an empty hallway. She looks annoyed as she speaks to her father on the phone.
A man sits alone at a restaurant table. He appears dejected, as his date has yet to arrive.
The outside of a large campus library building without anybody in sight.
A large, crowded lecture hall begins clearing out at the end of a class.

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