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Tim Plester joins us this week to discuss his DVD released trilogy of shorts and directorial debut English Language (With English Subtitles), which he also wrote and stars in.
English Language (With English Subtitles) Materials
Stills & Storyboards
Script
Shotlist
Music by Barbarossa
Afterglow Music Promo
Trailer
Behind the Scenes Footage
Showlinks
timplester.com
English Language (With English Subtitles)
Blurring the Line
KMIR6 Breakfast News Interview
‘Ant Muzak’, Blake’s Junction [...]
English Language (With English Subtitles) (2007)
A tenderly offbeat black-and-white romantic comedy… with subtitles.
Meet Mulligan (a typically English man), Esther (his Scandinavian girlfriend), and the on-screen captions that happen to find themselves along for the ride.
Victor Solomon is a director in the rare and enviable position of being able to initiate his own projects through self-funding. He joins us this week to discuss his latest work Anthropology, a collection of five short films based stories from the Dan Rhodes’ book of the same name.
Anthropology Materials
Storyboards
Scripts
Showlinks
Victor Solomon
The Lovemakers
Faux Fox
Dan Rhodes
A Fine [...]
Anthropology (2008)
Victor Solomon’s Anthropology series of films adapted from Anthropology, a book of short stories by Dan Rhodes.
Back on DN043 Peter Bunzl joined us to discuss his dark, thought experiment animation Mind Games and wet our appetites with talk of his new topsy turvy short On The Upside, in which an elderly couple overcome quirks of gravity to maintain their relationship.
On The Upside is now finished and there’s a clip over at [...]
My guest today is Lana Schwarcz talking about the plethora of creative roles she fills and her alternate reality piece The Upper Hand, where humans and puppets come together to bet on cross-species striping contests.
The Upper Hand Materials
Stills
Showlinks
That Lana Girl MySpace
That Girl Entertainment
Marc Fennell’s Film Ed 101
Lana’s ABC Video Lives
Tropfest
The Portable [...]
The Upper Hand (2006)
When the ordinary no longer sustains its audience, the ultimate performer will do almost anything to get them back on side.
Mistress Marvel’s Burlesque Club and MC Randy invite puppets to mingle with live humans to see Lulu Fountain (pron. FounTAINE) vs Capability Brown in a competitive strip-off that is sure to blow [...]
Today I’m joined by Dan Gitsham to discuss his dark comedy, horror, Film Eight which is quite fitting as I’m recording this on Friday the 13th. Dan describes Film Eight as a run, hide, run, film which I suppose categorises the coming section as chat in the talk, chat, talk structure of Directors Notes.
Film Eight [...]
Film Eight (2006)
One man’s incredible ability to make every wrong decision you could possibly imagine and then some… A black and blue comedy where anything goes!
Today’s interview’s slightly different in that instead of zeroing in on a single film, we’re looking at four very different pieces from director Mike Chan’s body of work, to get a feel for the variety of projects he creates with his regular team of collaborators; including experiments with photocopiers in Distortion, duelling Ping Pong [...]