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Early buzz: ‘Four Boxes’
Few films will fit in better with the overall focus of the upcoming South by Southwest Film and Interactive festivals than ‘Four Boxes.’
The thriller, starring Justin Kirk of Showtime’s ‘Weeds,’ deals with a team of ambulance chasers who target the homes of people who have died and left estates that need liquidating.
A mystery develops when the team sets up shop in a house and starts watching real-life events being streamed onto a Web site called fourboxes.tv. And before long, the liquidators begin to think what’s happening on the Web site might have some connection to the home where they are working.
Even more troublesome: The Web site appears to be showing what might be a terrorist cell planning an attack on the United States.
Directed by Wyatt McDill, ‘Four Boxes’ explores the permeable boundaries between real life and events being shown on the Web.
What’s real and what’s not? You’ll have to decide when watching this world premiere. McDill describes the movie as ‘a game-changing film that hints at the artistic and infrastructural collapse’ between storytelling on the big screen and on the Internet. Terryn Westbrook and Sam Rosen co-star with Kirk.
‘Four Boxes’ screens at 9:30 p.m. March 15 at the Alamo South, and at 4 p.m. March 17 at the Paramount. It will screen again at 7 p.m. March 20 at the Alamo South. The cast and crew are expected at various screenings. A party follows the world premiere March 15 at the Tap Room.
This one’s interesting, folks.
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