The concept of time has always been a capricious one, baffling generations of theoretical physicists and filmmakers alike. In his groundbreaking memoir, Sculpting in Time (1984), Andrei Tarkovsky navigates the composition of shots via a personal sense of temporality, creating rich, dream-like inner worlds that dabble in the poetics of cinematic time. The act of moving between variant points in time, also known as time travel, has been heavily imprinted in our collective consciousness through films like Donnie Darko (2001),…