Adapted from the traditional Russian story ‘The Twelve Months’, a young girl is sent into the woods to complete three impossible tasks by her evil stepmother. She finds what she is looking for in the face of a magical giant, with a most unusual head. (No rag dolls were harmed in the making of this film.)
In the classic 1950s Westerns conflict occurs on a mostly psychological level between lonesome misfits travelling through wide open landscape. Outbursts of violence or dissent were punished quickly and sternly. So it was also with growing up in Canberra in the 1960s and 1970s.
He is a little man, with a lot of hair.
In a digital world, can analogue find true love? It is the wise old gramophone who has the answers for a lovesick loner.
In an alternate 1920s Venice, gramophone-head composer Hero Wasabi and his faithful oboe-playing cat Jacuzzi must face the evil Count Telefino as they compete for the Abacus Cup, a prize for music composition.
A poetic work centred on memory. Surveys a group of people in low income areas of Canberra, their memories of popular culture as teenagers and their future aims. The structure is centred around The Mnemonist figure, the filmmaker.
An elliptical family history of death and life, woven from Super 8 landscapes, 1960s TV, the colours of autumn and folk or popular music.