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These lyrical animations bring together ideas of love, mortality, time, and place, told through deftly crafted adaptations of well-known classics to contemporary musings.

Melbhattan 2012

“Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen’s seminal 1979 film Manhattan. It features more than sixty black and white tableaux of Melbourne each composed to mimic images in Allen’s film.” Oslo Davis

5 minutes | Ages 12+

Sohrab and Rustum 2018

“Sohrab and Rustum is the story of a young charismatic English teacher who reads a poem to her students, a group of teenage girls whose main concerns are pop music and nail polish. The poem takes the girls on a journey to ancient Persia and a legendary fight between two warriors Sohrab and Rustum. The poem ends tragically and the girls are confronted with the reality of death. In the last stanza watercolour images of the night sky over the mighty Oxus River are a reminder of the beautiful eternal nature of life. The girls return to their class puzzled but wiser.” Lee Whitmore

14 minutes | Ages 12+

Sumo Lake 2011

“Sumo Lake is a rapid, animated re-telling of the story of the ballet Swan Lake using sumo wrestlers and a giant lizard in a leotard. And really, do you need to know anything else?” Press Release

3 minutes | Ages 12+

Wither 2019

“After suffering a loss, the inundating sympathy flowers echo a young woman's emotional passage.” Nicolette Axiak

3 minutes | Ages 12+

Imagining Time 2015

“Adapted from the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot, this experimental animation is designed in a dual screen format. The film combines themes of the disruption of the everyday; magical realism and surrealism with the themes of isolation, introversion and passivity from the poem.” Jelena Sinik

2 minutes | Ages 12+

Seine’s Breath 2017

“After a young woman drowns in the Seine her identity lives on through a death mask created from her face. As people find curiosity, joy, inspiration and lessons through her mask, her soul finds peace.” Bethanie Montano

3 minutes | Ages 12+

Phantasm 2018

“An emotional window into the life of a woman caught between two worlds.” St Kilda Film Festival

1 minutes | Ages 12+

Femme Enfant 2015

“Frida, a barren artist, experiences the joys and fears of pregnancy through her surrealistic paintings. Inspired by the story of Frida Kahlo and the female surrealists of the early 20th Century.” University of Technology, Sydney

4 minutes | Ages 12+

The Last Artist 2014

“The last man on Earth, William; an artist, must come to terms with his existence and artistic practice away from the eyes of society. William must forge his own truly independent artistic identity away from an audience and become at peace with his solitary existence.” Allysha Webber

8 minutes | Ages 12+