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At last. A film for people who want to be challenged … who want to think … who want not only their emotions to be moved around, which any good movie will do … but also their very conception of the nature of reality. How much more potent can a film experience be?
This is a watershed film, made by three courageous filmmakers -- Will Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente -- who, in various combinations, financed, wrote (along with Matthew Hoffman), produced and directed it. Put bluntly, the film is a hybrid documentary about the confluence of leading edge science - quantum physics, molecular biology, neurobiology, etc. - with spirituality. Not exactly predictable Hollywood fare.
As could be expected, the conventional wisdom in Hollywood was “No one will pay to see a movie about physics and spirituality.” Guess again. They’ve been lining up around the block wherever the movie is shown. For good reason...
The film is a deftly woven, entertaining and enlightening tapestry of live action drama, documentary interviews, and visionary animation. Academy Award-winner Marlee Matlin plays Amanda, an unhappy, self-loathing professional photographer. By “chance,” she meets nine-year old Reggie (Robert Bailey, Jr.) who asks her “Just how far down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness do you want to go?”
Thus begins her Alice-in-Wonderland-like confrontation with the depths of her soul and the quirks of her psyche. Interlaced with her unfolding dissolution, transformation and rebirth are ongoing interviews with 14 top scientists and mystics. They relate our current understanding of the nature of the universe and our place in it, including what and how we human beings are wired. All of this is fascinating, thought provoking, and illustrated with delightful animation from two houses in Canada and one in South Africa. Frosting on this cake is the music score by Christopher Franke, original member of the
seminal Tangerine Dream.
Director of Photography Mark Vicente has captured with great beauty and clarity the humor, pathos - and essential aliveness - of the characters, the settings, and the awesome portent of this information. No wonder audiences leave the theater slowly, gathering in the lobby and outside to discuss what they’ve just seen. You will, too. Not to be missed.
ABOUT THE FILM:
• Winner: Grand Jury Prize Documentary, 2004 DC Independent Film Festival
• Award Winner: 37th Annual WorldFest - Houston Int’l. Film Festival
• Winner: Grand Jury Prize Documentary, Ashland (Oregon) Film Festival
• Winner: Audience Award, Best Hybrid Documentary, Maui Film Festival
• A tour de force hybrid film featuring live-action drama, documentary, and
state-of-the-art animation.
In the story, the protagonist, Amanda, played by Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience. Her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of… what physicists define as “the quantum field” hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn’t even realize she asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life, ultimately discovering that the reality she has believed in isn’t reality at all! After this “awakening,” she is no longer the victim of circumstances, but on her way to being the creative force in her life. Her life will never be the same.
The fourteen top scientists and mystics interviewed in documentary style serve as a modern day Greek Chorus. Their ideas are woven together as a tapestry of scientific truth, pointing to the interconnectedness of all things. Through the course of the film, the distinction between science and religion becomes increasingly blurred, since we realize that, in essence, both science and religion describe the same phenomena.
Powerful animated sequences explore the inner-workings of the human brain, as well as the smallest form of consciousness in the body – the cell. These dazzling visuals reinforce the film’s message with humor, precision, and irreverence.
