QuantuMine: Quantum Physics Meets Cinema in Carlotta Petracci's Documentary

Carlotta Petracci's documentary 'QuantuMine' offers a quantum-physics-inspired reinterpretation of the 2016 survival film 'Mine', directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro. The original film, an Italian-Spanish-US co-production starring Armie Hammer, follows a soldier stranded on a landmine in the sub-Saharan desert, forced to confront his inner demons. Petracci's documentary frames this narrative through the lens of 'fantacoscienza' (fantasy consciousness), a concept from 1970s cinema, arguing that the film's non-linear temporality and use of flashbacks embody quantum principles like non-locality and the collapse of determinism. The documentary explores how the protagonist Mike's struggle to change his past and create a new future mirrors quantum existential perspectives. 'QuantuMine' was published on Artribune in March 2017.