Breath in and breath out…the way we breath is the way we think.
Rhythm is the basic principle of all artistic creation.
Johannes Itten, teacher, Bauhaus School
JANUARY 2012
WORDS WITH GODS
An omnibus feature film
Warwick Thornton is going to have Words with Gods, along with ten other directors from around the world (including Emir Kusturica, Bahman Ghobadi, Mira Nair) to make up a feature film about relationships with religion. The producers, including Mexican Guillermo Arriaga (who will also direct), are making three further features with the themes of s*xuality, politics and drug addiction. Read more about it in the Hollywood Reporter here or The Australian here. We have just wrapped the shoot in Alice Springs overseen by the head honcho producer Lucas Akoskin. Actor Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires) did a sterling job in 41-plus degree heat.
Leaving Alice
HERE I AM
a feature film
Took my teenager daughter to see this film last night at Luna in Perth. Half way during the movie she turned to me and said "I don't want this film to end".... I knew exactly what she meant. I could have watched this plot for another 20 hours. It is just a simple, raw, moving and honest film that allowed you to give it your own ending many hours after the credits rolled.....
Anthony, posted on Facebook
Beck Cole's debut feature. Available now on DVD or for download through iTunes. A website is here. Facebook is here:
STRANDED
in 3d!
Warwick Thornton has gone all fancy on us and has been busy making art - moving image art. The 3D movie Stranded screened as part of a new exhibition at the Adelaide Film Festival in February 2011 and has recently been acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery. Jesus also made an appearance in Sydney at the Stills Gallery in Paddington for a solo show in September 2011 accompanied by a series of still photographs. Both the moving image work and still photographs are available for sale from Stills Gallery. Check out the new Messiah.
"When I grow up I want to be just like Jesus". (Warwick Thornton, aged 6)
Old stuff ... so last year:
Samson & Delilah
A feature film
Still screening around the world, with a website that looks like this.
Making Samson & Delilah
A one-hour documentary
World Premiere - Melbourne International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Zealand Film Festival 2009
Available on the double-disc Samson & Delilah DVD that is in stores in Australia now or available online here.
A director, a producer, two teenage actors, a small crew and six weeks in the desert. Throw in an observational documentary filmmaker and the result is a candid and affectionate behind-the-scenes look at the making of the hit feature film Samson & Delilah.
Directed by Beck Cole, produced by Kath Shelper and Beck Cole.
Financed by Screen Australia, NSW Film & TV Office, ABC TV.
Many of the images and artworks included in the documentary as part of the Colliding Worlds Exhibition were authored by the late Professor Donald Thomson and form part of the Donald Thomson Collection. Scarlett Pictures would like to extend their thanks to the Thomson Family for the inclusion of several of these images and artworks in Making Samson & Delilah.
Bourke Boy
A short film
Message Sticks Film Festival Sydney 2009, Brisbane International Film Festival, Imaginative Film Festival Toronto, Flickerfest, Sydney 2010, London Australia Film Festival, St Kilda Short Film Festival (Best Indigenous Film).
A father (Andrew McFarlane) and adopted troubled teenage son (Clarence Ryan) take a trip to the son's birthplace of Bourke, where they try to find the right words to say to each other before it's too late. Adrian Wills is writer/director, Kath Shelper and Anusha Duray producing.
Bourke Boy is distributed by Flickerfest and a DVD can be purchased here.
Financed by Screen Australia, NSW Film & TV Office, ABC TV.
NEW PROJECTS:
If you have an interesting project you would like us to consider, please email a synopsis and some brief information. If you have a boring project then send that to someone else.
