Director:
Tom Mattera & Dave Mazzoni
Studio/Production Company:
M & M Productions
Genre:
Drama
Sub-Genre:
Mystery
Length:
Feature
Awards Won:
Winner: Grand Jury Honorable Mention, Cinevegas
Winner: Technical Achievement Award, Philadelphia Film Festival
Official Selection: Montreal World Film Festival
Offical Selection: Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film
Offical Selection: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection: Nantes International Science Fiction Festival – France
Website:
http://www.4thdmovie.com
Score:
4/5
Breathtaking cinematography and a mind-boggling narrative highlight the brilliant, beautiful and heady debut feature by Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni. Eerie and mysterious, the film moves at its own pace, quiet and deliberate but intense and compelling at the same time. The story involves Jack, an awkward, introverted young man who toils in near isolation at the workbench of a musty antique shop. When he discovers a hidden journal belonging to Albert Einstein he dives into it, devouring the theories and obsessively conducting his own examination of the nature of time, resulting in a surprising, perhaps unwelcome, discovery. Time, personal history, the past, in general, the nature of the present and our relation to it is at the heart of this stunning film. Oddly sort of contemporary and set in a sort of indistinct past at the same time, the film recalls the very best elements of the first films by David Lynch, “Eraserhead” and Darren Aronofsky, “Pi.” The mood is certainly given a boost by the fact that much of the film was shot at the spooky, abandoned remains of Philadelphia’s notorious, legendary “Byberry” mental hospital (a location that was denied to countless higher profile filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan who wanted shoot scenes for “The Sixth Sense” there) just days before it was demolished.
Writer-directors Mattera and Mazzoni as well as enormously talented DP Daniel Watchulonis and composer/sound designer John Avarese all get a boost from the amazing, complex yet understated performance of Louis Morabito in a challenging role.
Provocative, assured and immaculately produced, “The 4th Dimension” could signal the arrival of a pair of seriously talented filmmakers to watch for in the future.
Tom Mattera & Dave Mazzoni
Studio/Production Company:
M & M Productions
Genre:
Drama
Sub-Genre:
Mystery
Length:
Feature
Awards Won:
Winner: Grand Jury Honorable Mention, Cinevegas
Winner: Technical Achievement Award, Philadelphia Film Festival
Official Selection: Montreal World Film Festival
Offical Selection: Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film
Offical Selection: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection: Nantes International Science Fiction Festival – France
Website:
http://www.4thdmovie.com
Score:
4/5
Breathtaking cinematography and a mind-boggling narrative highlight the brilliant, beautiful and heady debut feature by Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni. Eerie and mysterious, the film moves at its own pace, quiet and deliberate but intense and compelling at the same time. The story involves Jack, an awkward, introverted young man who toils in near isolation at the workbench of a musty antique shop. When he discovers a hidden journal belonging to Albert Einstein he dives into it, devouring the theories and obsessively conducting his own examination of the nature of time, resulting in a surprising, perhaps unwelcome, discovery. Time, personal history, the past, in general, the nature of the present and our relation to it is at the heart of this stunning film. Oddly sort of contemporary and set in a sort of indistinct past at the same time, the film recalls the very best elements of the first films by David Lynch, “Eraserhead” and Darren Aronofsky, “Pi.” The mood is certainly given a boost by the fact that much of the film was shot at the spooky, abandoned remains of Philadelphia’s notorious, legendary “Byberry” mental hospital (a location that was denied to countless higher profile filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan who wanted shoot scenes for “The Sixth Sense” there) just days before it was demolished.
Writer-directors Mattera and Mazzoni as well as enormously talented DP Daniel Watchulonis and composer/sound designer John Avarese all get a boost from the amazing, complex yet understated performance of Louis Morabito in a challenging role.
Provocative, assured and immaculately produced, “The 4th Dimension” could signal the arrival of a pair of seriously talented filmmakers to watch for in the future.
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