AXIOM | Short film

Alicia Hayes

Director | Writer | Producer

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​AXIOM unfolds after hours at Princeton University: a stripped-down roundtable where the scientific titans face off, fast and clean. Einstein’s realism. Feynman’s “show me.” Curie’s lab rigor. Hawking’s sums over histories. Penrose’s doubts. Sagan’s disciplined wonder. Hitchens’s acid test. No straw men. No soft questions.

The conversation runs from quantum interpretations to the shape of the cosmos, from measurement and funding to mercy and moral responsibility—not as lectures, but as hits that land. The pace is tight, the logic unforgiving, and the stakes simple: truth. It doesn’t end with a slogan. It ends where arguments rarely do. By night’s end, the oldest question—where and why the universe began is far more closer than anyone ever expected.