Filmed this in 2019 forever ago. Besides the cultural context, it's really just about wondering whatever happened to that particular someone now in a different place and time.
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Malls 2025
Walking out of the cinema and into the streets of the Adelaide CBD is like walking back into the film; scooters lying randomly on the path, fries spilled in the gutter, grey buildings and bright signs towering over people crossing a red in the middle of the murky night.
In the Q&A, Daniel talked about going to Rundle mall as a teenager and being excited by it (like most people do at that age in whatever city they’re closest to).…
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A River in the Middle of the Sky 2023
Death is a part of life. It is such an integral part of Indonesian Torajan life that the deceased aren’t treated as dead but still alive, just on their way to the afterlife. Casket holders jump up and down and run around in such joyful celebration that it feels jarring to western viewers. Beyond the gaze of death tourism, cameraman Victor Konda captures these ceremonies in the same way he films any other aspect of life, as raw documentation for…
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Housekeeping for Beginners 2023
Fun facts from the Q&A:
Inspired by a picture Tony Ayres posted of him and his partner living with 8 queer women in the 70s.
The two leads Anamaria Marinca and Vladimir Tintor learnt all their lines phoenetically. (You couldn't tell at all, unless maybe if you're Macedonian and I was just so entranced by Anamaria's performance, recalling her in 4months, 3 weeks, 2 days, but just assumed she knew multiple languages).
The other supporting actors were street cast but…
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The Plastic House 2019
It's very surreal to have my film as an official selection of Visions du Réel film festival in this moment in time. I made this film in isolation, never thinking of its afterlife. In light of the current pandemic, I hope it raises some timely questions - How do you continue to live and work in isolation? What memories do you keep of loved ones when they're not around? As everything has changed so much, it already feels like a nostalgic film to me.
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