More short films of interest
November 6th 2008 06:32
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More short films of some interest
I'm in the process of selecting stills from short films I've been involved in; my main objective is to create a portfolio.
This short, made by Mark Lane while he was doing his Bachelor of Film and Television at Swinburne University. I was working for Jean-Pierre Mignon at ANTHILL, which was a theatre in South Melbourne and we filmed in a derelict old building across the road.
Later on I filmed scenes for a mini-series called Sword of Honor in the same building. Tina Mann and Andrew Clark were the leads in the mini-series. It was about Australians during the Vietnam war.
Briony Hawkins did an amazing make-up job on me for one dream sequence that was very Zen. Indeed the whole film was very Zen; Phillip the character I played has holed himself up in this strange old abandoned orphanage... it's the early 1980's so the technology he has looks very old and clunky now, but he sets up a situation where he can video himself trying to play a bit of a trick on an old friend who is appearing live on a local t.v. show.
The trick goes wrong and unfortunately Phillip ends up dead, but he does get a video of it. The abandoned and derelict orphanage was real, and it had the amazingly photogenic chapel in it where we shot the most Zen scene. Phillip shoots an arrow through his own heart - hence all the exotic make-up. But what a great location. Probably not there anymore.
I've always enjoyed working on short films as an actor because it's generally quite an intense and focused but short period of time to create and perform a character.
This short, made by Mark Lane while he was doing his Bachelor of Film and Television at Swinburne University. I was working for Jean-Pierre Mignon at ANTHILL, which was a theatre in South Melbourne and we filmed in a derelict old building across the road.
Later on I filmed scenes for a mini-series called Sword of Honor in the same building. Tina Mann and Andrew Clark were the leads in the mini-series. It was about Australians during the Vietnam war.
Briony Hawkins did an amazing make-up job on me for one dream sequence that was very Zen. Indeed the whole film was very Zen; Phillip the character I played has holed himself up in this strange old abandoned orphanage... it's the early 1980's so the technology he has looks very old and clunky now, but he sets up a situation where he can video himself trying to play a bit of a trick on an old friend who is appearing live on a local t.v. show.
The trick goes wrong and unfortunately Phillip ends up dead, but he does get a video of it. The abandoned and derelict orphanage was real, and it had the amazingly photogenic chapel in it where we shot the most Zen scene. Phillip shoots an arrow through his own heart - hence all the exotic make-up. But what a great location. Probably not there anymore.
I've always enjoyed working on short films as an actor because it's generally quite an intense and focused but short period of time to create and perform a character.
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