Australia Tag Archive

Live Action

A Yuppie & Nosferatic Ghoul Battle for Social Superiority in Nathaniel Lindsay’s Satirical Comedy ‘Green Eyed’

A successful yuppie finds himself locked in a battle of oneupmanship with a Nosferatic ghoul bent on usurping his social status in Nathaniel Lindsay's

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2014: Finding Father Figures in the Wrong Places in Julius Avery’s Crime Drama ‘Son of a Gun’

In his action packed crime feature debut 'Son of a Gun', Julius Avery explores themes of masculinity and belonging through the adrenaline soaked lens of a high

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Live Action

Melissa Anastasi Takes a Meditative Look at Life, Loss and Longing in ‘This Feral Life’

Melissa Anastasi discusses the process of adapting a theatre monologue for screen and the importance of emotional truth and tone in storytelling.

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Live Action

Surviving a Surprise Satanic Sex Party with ‘Black And White’ Director Richard Williamson

"Surviving a surprise sex party with your soul intact is tough." DN speaks to Richard Williamson, director of wickedly dark psychological short 'Black and

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Asides, Live Action

Status Update – A Facebook Fairytale

Imagine if all those aspirational activities you plug into your status update came true as soon as you hit enter? Austrailian director Daniel Reisinger takes

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Animation, Asides, Live Action

The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting Animated Bumpers

Doug Bayne puts classical paintings to comically irreverent use in this collection of animated bumpers created for Australian sketch show The Elegant

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Animation, Asides

The Guardians Tale

A lonely, fearsome monster finds its friendship with a little girl turns out to be not quite as it seems in Queensland College of Art animated graduation short

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Animation, Asides

The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & 3/4

Charming, funny and sad all at once, a lonely bachelor lays his heart on the line in Steve Baker’s fantastic short The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray,

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Art & Fashion

Make Your Maker

Australian body architect and director Lucy McRae explores the inextricable link between food and the body in her disturbing experimental short Make Your

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Music Video

Arctic Monkeys: Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

Nabil directs Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner through a bleary eyed stumble back from the pub, punctuated by NSFW flights of sexual fancy in Why’d You

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Asides, Live Action

Explosions

Australian director Christopher Frey crafts an ominous tale of end of days proportions in his haunting 6 minute short Explosions.

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Animation

Tom Clancy’s The Division

The fragility of our interconnected global network and the potential spread of a pandemic which will bring about the breakdown of order are terrifyingly played

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