THE HEART MACHINE

Fri 15 Aug 6:30pm | Event Cinemas George St   

DIR ZACHARY WIGON | USA, 2014, 85 MIN | WITH JOHN GALLAGHER JR, KATE LYN SHEIL | AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Cody (The Newsroom’s John Gallagher Jr.) lives in Brooklyn, Virginia (House of Cards’Kate Lyn Sheil) is in Berlin. They met online and spend late nights falling for each other through Skype. They seem to have that rare thing: a functioning long-distance relationship. Or do they? Before long, Cody begins to suspect Virginia may in fact be a lot closer than she claims... Filled with insights into physical and emotional intimacy in a world mediated by technology and social media, The Heart Machine is entirely of its time: a smart, brilliantly acted love story that unfolds like a heart-pounding lo-fi thriller.

“Kate Lyn Sheil and John Gallagher Jr. give excellent performances in Zachary Wigon's impressive debut. A former film critic, Wigon has clearly spent some serious time studying the tricks of the masters, and he shows precocious instincts for shot composition and one-take suspense sequences. The film is unfailing stylish, at times applying an almost classical style of craft to a consummately digital-age story.”- Variety

“This might be what it'd look like if Antonioni directed a Nora Ephron script.” – Film School Rejects

FESTIVALS: SXSW 2014 (OFFICIAL COMPETITION)