Edit: Spin (2004) 15-minute short film

I’ve tried for years to track this one down and will be genuinely impressed if anyone can figure this out.

It was about a bicyclist riding his bike down a hill, having a car start to pull out in front of him, think to look the other way halfway through, and hit his brakes. The bicyclist still hits the car, but he skims over the hood mostly unharmed, instead of hitting the flat side of the car, which could have easily killed him.

He starts thinking about the incident and realizes that due to quantum mechanics, he actually did get hit by that car on the flat side and die, because in another universe, the other driver didn’t look and brake at the last second, because that neuron didn’t fire in his brain. He starts to realize that this is happening all the time in every moment for all things.

It was a really beautiful film that was able to introduce the concept of the multi-verse with a really simple example. The final scene of the film shows the driving towards an intersection and the camera view split to reveal him driving both ways. The cameras follow both paths and they start to split as well. This goes on and shows a massive branching scene where his car is going in all sorts of directions at once with a grid of hundreds of different directions he could have taken.

I remember seeing the film around the year 2006. I’m pretty sure it was airing on IFC, but this could be wrong. I can’t clearly remember if it was a short film or a movie, but my memory has it as a short film, something like 30 minutes. I saw it in 2006, but I don’t necessarily know that it came out in 2006. I remember it looking like it was filmed with relatively modern equipment, likely after 2000.