If you're interested, my A I M moniker is disquietmatt.
I guess I'm here on myspace for networking purposes. It is totally ridiculous, but it seems just about everybody has a page. So, I figured, why not?
Anyway, my name is Matthew Doyle. I'm a filmmaker. A few months ago I completed the editing on my first feature. The title is "Disquiet" and I hope it can correctly be called a coming attraction. I just sent it out to a couple of fests and so far "Disquiet" has been selected by three festivals: The Hoboken International Film Festival, where it premiered on June 5th, 2007...
...and the Dead Channels Film Festival in San Fransisco where it screened three times in mid-August at The Roxie...
... and it screened twice in the Idaho International Film Festival at The Flicks in Boise.
In the meantime, "Disquiet" also just got its first review:
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A remarkable self-made film that is as witty and intelligent as it is unnervingly creepy, Disquiet is an all-too-uncommon example of what was once the vision at the dawn of the digital video age -- that any potential filmmaker with talent and desire could grab a camera, corral a few friends, and create a masterpiece.
Writing, directing, acting, editing, supplying the props, the locations, and so on, Disquiet's creator, Matthew Doyle, demonstrates an exceptional ability to sustain the intellectual values of a larger-budgeted feature through his deft imagination and jovial will power. For once, and it rarely happens with credit card-funded movies, the viewer is challenged by the emotional constructs of the narrative, rather than by the compromises of the production environment.
As for the 67 minute feature, you might wish Doyle had had the resources to embellish the beginning, but the plot is astutely shuffled to engage the viewer throughout, as it gradually reveals the inner desires of several different characters, culminating in the film's stunning finale, a tour de force piece of acting and directing that will disturb your sense of security forever after.
- Douglas Pratt
Douglas Pratt is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone, author of Doug Pratt's DVD-Video Guide (2000), and the recently published Doug Pratt's DVD.
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