Zal Batmanglij

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Zal Batmanglij is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote the 2011 film Sound of My Voice and the 2013 film The East, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Netflix series The OA.

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Parallelism “What if?” is a question that has plagued and inspired humankind since time immemorial. What if we had gone this way instead of that way? Quantum physics has suggested that the outcome of every choice is simultaneously real in parallel universes. It’s a subject that has fascinated two explorers of another type of latitude: Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the filmmaking duo behind Netflix’s metaphysical mind-binder The OA. Here, they talk to Atmos about multiple realities, the parallels between science and spirituality, and their very own “what ifs.”

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