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Creative Brief
Written by Eddy Moretti, inspired, in so many (very different) ways,
by his friend Harmony Korine.
Dear director from another land, here are your instructions...
This film must be the best film you have ever made.
People who look a different way are good.
You must forget everything you know.
People who move a different way are good.
This film has to have real life.
Stray dogs are good. They can be really meaningful.
It has to have more real life than anything else you
have ever made.
There needs to be music playing within the scene.
It needs to stop people from going about their day.
It should blur the line between what is real and what
is fake.
Someone must sing a song that is completely made up.
There needs to be a character named “Mickey House.”
There needs to be love.
We must never know the truth.
There needs to be someone wearing tap shoes.
We need to be shown things we have never been shown
before.
A stuffed animal needs to make an appearance.
We need to see things that are secret to most.
The director must direct one scene from the film with
a blindfold on over his or her eyes.
We need to go places that we may not have been
before.
We need privy and access to an unknown culture.
You need to take us to a different world, an unknown
world.
You cannot be afraid.
You need to be bold.
The hero needs to be bold. Bold in an unexpected way.
The hero also has to be flawed.
The hero has to be capable of doing bad things.
The hero must never appear to be a “hero.”
The hero must be reluctant.
The hero must have greatness thrust upon him or her.
The hero must have a missing tooth.
The hero was a terrible student.
The hero tells bad jokes. But they’re good.
The hero needs to believe in something so deeply that
nothing else matters.
You must try and make this film look very beautiful.
We will choose that scene.
We will film the director while he or she is directing
that scene.
We must hear someone tell a great story.
The story must be something that has actually happened
to the writer/ director in real life, something that
they have never revealed to anyone else.
A character must say “Don’t worry, I’m sure you will
survive.”
We need to see what the sky looks like where you are
filming.
You must give us private entrance into another world.
This is important: you must refer to the “Fourth
Dimension.”
And you must show us a glimpse of this “Fourth
Dimension.”
It should challenge our commonly held assumptions of
the “Fourth Dimension.”
Director, you are required to give us magic.
The hero needs to be independent.
You are required to catch lighting in a bottle.
Eccentrics are good.
People with a surfeit of character are good.
You are required to make your audience walk away
elevated, even afraid of their own potential as human
beings.
People who live outside the mainstream are good.
You cannot fail.
Thank you Director. We are all counting on you.
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SYNOPSIS
Grolsch Film Work’s first feature film, The Fourth Dimension, is a co-production between Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films,
bringing together a trilogy of directors from across the globe: Harmony Korine from the US, Russia’s Alexey Fedorchenko and
Polish-born Jan Kwiecinski. Each director filmed a 30-minute short movie in their home nations – all following an identical creative
brief set by Eddy Moretti, executive director of VICE Films.
The result, The Fourth Dimension, gives us a glimpse of enlightenment through the eyes of three one-of-a-kind characters. The
three filmmakers have created three unique stories that offer up their vision of this higher plane of existence, the Fourth Dimension.
Each filmmaker takes his character on a journey that changes the way they see the world and themselves. And each filmmaker will
offer a different perspective on what the Fourth Dimension is.
harmony korine
Alexey Fedorchenko
Jan Kwiecinski
Harmony Korine was just 22 when he
penned the script for Larry Clark’s Kids
(1995), a provocative look at the lives of
New York City teens. His first directorial
effort, 1997’s Gummo, became a cult
sensation. He went on to make the 1999
Dogme 95 entry Julien Donkey-Boy and
2007’s poignant celebrity-impersonator
fable Mister Lonely (both costarring
Werner Herzog), as well as 2009 oddity
Trash Humpers.
Russian filmmaker Alexey Fedorchenko is
probably best known for his melancholic
road movie Silent Souls, a Golden Lion
nominee at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
In 2005, the same festival honored him
with the Venice Horizons Documentary
Award for First on the Moon, which
Fedorchenko called “a documentary
fantasy” about a clandestine Russian
moon landing in the 1930s.
Warsaw native Jan Kwiecinski is a
graduate of Andrzej Wajda’s Master
School of Film Directing and the London
Film School. Born in 1985, Kwiecinski
has made several short films (including
2009’s award-winning Incident), short
documentaries and commercials. He also
directed purportedly “the longest hip-hop
music video in Europe,” Bez Cenzury’s I
Represent Myself.
grolsch film works
Since 1615, Grolsch has been driven by creativity, innovation and great ideas. It is these same qualities, fundamental to
independent film, that have inspired Grolsch Film Works. Grolsch Film Works is a global initiative that strives to represent the true
spirit, inspiration and talent behind the emergent independent film industry. Its goal is to promote and cultivate up-and-coming
filmmakers, actors, directors and the genius that goes into making inspiring indie movies through funding projects and showcasing
their work worldwide.
about vice media
VICE Media is a leading global youth media company operating in over 30 countries, and includes the world’s premier original
online video destination, VICE.com; an international network of digital channels; a television and film production studio; a record
label; an in-house creative services agency; and a book publishing division. VICE’s digital channels include The Creators Project,
dedicated to arts and creativity; Motherboard, covering cultural happenings in technology; and Noisey, a new music channel.
VICE Films has produced and distributed the films Heavy Metal in Baghdad, White Lightning, Swansea Love Story, and The Ride.