How to Build A Time Machine is the story of two men obsessed with time travel for very different reasons, and who manifest that obsession in two very different ways. When theoretical physicist Dr. Ron Mallett was just 10 years old, his father died of a sudden heart attack. That loss drove him to become fixated on the idea of changing the past — upon reading the H. G. Wells classic The Time Machine, he decided he would devote his life to science in an attempt to discover a way to travel back in time and see his father again. Rob Niosi is a professional stop-motion animator who spent more than 13 years constructing a perfect, full-scale replica of the time machine prop from the 1960 movie adaptation of The Time Machine — it’s his attempt to recapture the thrilling feeling of seeing the film in the theatre as a child alongside his own father.