Time Bomb Y2K
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- Marley McDonald
- Brian Becker
- Marley McDonald
- Maya Mumma
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| Produced by | Brian Becker |
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| Music by | Nathan Micay |
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| Distributed by | HBO |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Time Bomb Y2K is a 2023 American documentary film, directed by Marley McDonald and Brian Becker. An all-archival film, it explores the Year 2000 problem, and the mass hysteria surrounding it.
It had its world premiere at True/False Film Festival on March 3, 2023, and was released on December 30, 2023, by HBO.
An all-archival film, Time Bomb Y2K explores the Year 2000 problem, and the ensuing mass hysteria to evade potential technological collapse or, at worst, a doomsday scenario.
Production
McDonald and Becker became friends while previously working together on Spaceship Earth. After opting to collaborate, they settled on co-directing a film revolving around the Year 2000 problem.[1] They decided together that the project would be compromised entirely of archival material.[2] To gather documentation of the period surrounding the dawn of the new millennium, Becker and McDonald openly solicited contributions of homemade footage, visited subjects' homes looking for videotapes they might have saved, and secured footage from the Center for Home Movies. In total, they viewed over 750 hours of footage for the film.[3][4]
In June 2022, the film was officially announced with McDonald and Becker as co-directors, Penny Lane as executive producer, and HBO Documentary Films producing with HBO distributing.[5]
Release
The film had its world premiere at True/False Film Festival on March 3, 2023.[6] It also screened at Hot Docs International Film Festival on April 29, 2023,[7][8] DC/DOX Festival in June 2023,[9] Camden International Film Festival on September 17, 2023,[10][11] the Virginia Film Festival on October 28, 2023,[12] and DOC NYC on November 15, 2023.[13][14]
The film was publicly released on December 30, 2023 on HBO.[15]