“David Lynch’s little brother.”

“Smith’s films rely on a meticulous visual logic and vivid sound design unspooling in seemingly idyllic natural settings that turn foreboding... [a] masterful fusion of the horrific and the comic”

“Unhinged, gross and gory, uncomfortable, and never truly explained; I absolutely loved this one.”

“The stand out short movie of this section was the Cronenbergian nightmare fueled The Altruist from Matt Smith.”

“It’s very rare that our hardened Grimmfest programming team is actually disturbed by a film, but this one haunted us for days afterwards. And if that’s not a recommendation, we don’t know what is.”

“I think I held my breath for the duration, sometimes with my hand over my mouth, but I’m definitely glad I saw it: bizarre, horrible, and outrageously original.”

“Smith fills the screen with shit, sweat and blood, as Aleksei German did in Hard To Be A God (Trudno byt bogom, 2013) although without his misanthropic gaze, to show us the possibilities of human relationships and throw a question in our faces continuously: would we do the same?.”