

AUSTIN UNDER THE STARS 2025
OFFICIAL SELECTION
SEPT 13, 2025 AT AFS CINEMA

The Frame "Déjà Vu"
William Cormier
The Frame is a psychological thriller series about the unsettling idea that the world actually ended on June 18, 1999, when Comet Hale-Bopp hit Earth, killing everyone. Unaware of this, humanity lives in an illusion—a constructed reality called "The Frame," created by each person's brain in the 7-15 minutes after clinical death. Noah Ladd, a brilliant but troubled software engineer at Nexus Technologies, starts noticing oddities: culture frozen in 1999, technology recycling old ideas, and constant déjà vu. His investigation leads him to Dr. Steven Roth's "Frame Theory," a dismissed concept suggesting reality is just our dying minds at work. Blending sci-fi and suspense, the series follows Noah as he uncovers this hidden truth over multiple seasons, wrestling with the implications of a world that might not exist.
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