Metanarrative Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Radical Vulnerability Powers a Deliriously Earnest Exploration of Selfhood in Collaborative Drama ‘The Unexpressed’

Dancing between sincerity & surrealism 'The Unexpressed's' creative collaborators discuss rejecting conflict in favour of shared unravelling in their sismance.

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Live Action, Premiere

Charlotte Serena Cooper Dismantles Queer Screen Death Tropes with Genre Pastiche in Riotous Satire ‘Bury Your Gays’

Drawing on years of script supervision, Charlotte Serena Cooper masters the visual grammar of five distinct genres to subvert a tired cinematic cliché.

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Live Action

Lope Serrano’s ‘The Cause Of The Accident That Started The Fire’ Turns Creative Crisis Into Meta-Narrative Excellence

We learn why Lope Serrano used a printed waveform as a structural guide to make creative paralysis tangible in his celebrated Spanish film industry showcase.

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Live Action

Evil Reigns on Both Sides of the Camera in Josefin Malmén & David Strindberg’s Meta Short ‘A Bloody Mess’

Josefin Malmén & David Strindberg talk through the practical challenges of rendering themselves on screen for their self-referential comedy horror.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Difficult Decision Causes a Looping Infinite Reality in Tom Moran’s Pastel-Coloured Fantasy ‘Romanesco’

Tom Moran reveals how he adapted his mind-boggling metanarrative concept into a self-referential spiral of a film about a woman trapped in an infinite dream.

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Animation, Awards

Reality Crumbles in Lachlan Pendragon’s ‘An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It’

Lachlan Pendragon takes DN through the creation of the clever yet whimsical character models featured in his metarealism Oscar nominated animation short.

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Music Video, Premiere

A Musician Makes a Music Video While Making a Music Video in Josh Sondock’s Ambitious Promo ‘Morning / Midnight’

Josh Sondock unpacks the ambitious technicality behind his multi-layered one-take music video about a musician making a music video.

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Documentary, Premiere

Argyro Nicolaou & Margaux Fitoussi’s ‘I, Tony’ Is a Meta-Documentary About the Desire to Be Remembered

Argyro Nicolaou and Margaux Fitoussi discuss harnessing the unpredictable energy of photographer Tony Moussoulides in their experimental biopic 'I, Tony'.

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