NEW YORK An anthology of quirk-courting shorts that entertains despite the flimsiness of its organizing conceit,The Fourth Dimensionwill draw attention for a Meta performance byVal Kilmerbut doesn't fizzle once his chapter ends.
Theatrical prospects are slim, but it may find a cult following on small screens.
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Kilmer's chapter, directed byHarmony Korine, finds him playing a character named "Val Kilmer" -- "a great man" who has given up acting to embark on a sort of motivational-speaking mission of altruism.
The meat of the film takes place in a roller rink, where (clad in bolo tie and jean shorts) Kilmer dispenses bizarre, sometimes hilariously surreal advice to a group of societal outcasts.
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Jan Kwiecinski's chapter finds four Polish hipsters exploring a town that has been evacuated in anticipation of a Bible-sized flood.
The disaster offers a chance to treat others' sacred places and prized possessions as penny-arcade diversions, and the film threatens to be a dispiriting, nihilistic exercise until Kwiecinski puts his characters' humanity to the test.
In Russian filmmakerAlexey Fedorchenko's "Chronoeye," an antisocial inventor works on a machine that will use the atmosphere and the earth's crust as antennae, producing a signal allowing him to look back in time.
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The machine works, but with some crucial flaws -- the more the inventor struggles with them, the more the machine becomes a poignant metaphor for our own blinkered perspectives on the passage of time.
Fedorchenko's scenario is the most literal in depicting the movie's stated theme, which turns out to be only one of many directives exec-producerEddy Morettigave his filmmakers.
A page-long "Creative Brief" consists of Dogme-like dares (the director must shoot at least one scene while blindfolded) and silly suggestions ("Stray dogs are good.
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They can be really meaningful."), and there's little evidence that any of the filmmakers took it very seriously.
Even so, the guidelines (and the selection of participants) establish a kind of Outsider metaphysical expectation that serves Fourth Dimension well, priming viewers for some half-serious mind-blowing in which the whole is just a tiny bit greater than the sum of its parts.
Production Companies: Vice, Grolsch Film Works
Directors: Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski
Executive producers: Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith, Thomas Kamphuis, Ronald Van Amergoen, Dmitry Vorobyev, Agnes B.
Cast: Val Kilmer, Igor Sergeev, Darya Ekamasova, Tomasz TyndykProducers: Priya Swaminathan, Matt Elek, Michael Derkits, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Michal Kwiecinski
Directors of photography: Kamil Plocki, Christopher Blauvelt, Shandor Berkeshi
Screenwriters: Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, Oleg Loevsky, Yaroslava Pulinovich
Production designers: Stanislav Kruppa, Artyom Khabibulin, Elliot Hostetter, Anna Wunderlich
Music: Val Kilmer, Nick Zinner
Editors: Leo Scott, Roman Vazhenin, Tymek Wiskirski Psm
Sales: Mark Ankner, WME Entertainment
No rating, 104 minutes
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