Heart Bake - The Blush Foundation

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Dir: Sam Icklow

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Year of completion: 2009
Country of origin: Australia
Genre: Music Video
Duration: 3 min
Shooting format: RED Camera system
Format for presentation: HD
Ratio: 2:1; Image: Colour

Baking a pie, with your heart inside.

Heart Bake is a music video for Sydney electro duo The Blush Foundation's upcoming album.

For more of the Band, check out myspace.com/theblushfoundation

 

Parallel Park

Parallel Park

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Dir: Sam Icklow

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Year of completion: 2008
Country of origin: Australia
Genre: Experimental
Duration: 12 min
Shooting format: DVCam
Format for presentation: DVCam
Ratio: 16:9; Image: Colour

Parallel Park is an experimental drama in the form of an episodic soap opera, and a multi-channel installation.

A confused love story. A new perspective from the queer youth of present day Sydney. Part satire, part drama, part high-camp parody, Parallel Park may be just as confused as its characters, but it's definitely fresh.

 

End It Tonight (Aus) - teenagersintokyo

End It Tonight

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Dir: Sam Icklow

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Year of completion: 2007
Country of origin: Australia
Genre: Music video
Duration: 4 min
Shooting format: 16 mm (Arri SR3)
Format for presentation: Digibeta, DVCam
Ratio: 16:9; Image: Colour

Music video for Sydney band teenagersintokyo. The clip for End It Tonight takes its cues from the Spanish melodrama of Almodóvar to create a playful yet sinister fantasy world.

For more of the band, check out teenagersintokyo.com

 

 

The Birdhouse

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Dir: Miska Mandic

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Year of completion: 2006
Country of origin: Australia
Genre: Experimental/Drama/Musical
Duration: 11:30 min
Shooting format:Super 16 (Arri SR3)
Format for presentation: Digibeta, DVCam
Ratio: 16:9; Image: Colour

A period piece set in a woman's mind.
A Victorian musical.
A surreal dreamscape.
Fleeing from the domestic quicksand of her life Audrey falls deeper and deeper into her own mind as she fantasises, ponders and rationalises within the surreal dreamscape of her thoughts.

 

 

Untitled Film Stills

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Dir: Sam Icklow

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Year of completion: 2005/7
Country of origin: Australia
Genre: Experimental
Duration: 5 min
Shooting format: 16 mm (Arri ST)
Format for presentation: Betacam SP, DVCam
Ratio: 4:3; Image: Colour

A fleeting, celluloid romance. A lasting moment. A fresh, queer, cinematc perspective
A romance between two people plays out all of the highs and lows of melodrama. The emotions are all there — the anticipation, the tension, that requited moment and the imminent failure. It is melodrama but it is also banal.

 

 

Still Lifes

Still Lifes

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Dir: Miska Mandic

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Year of completion: 2004
Country of origin: Australia
Genre: Experimental
Duration: 4 min
Shooting format: 16 mm (Bolex)
Format for presentation: Betacam SP, DVCam
Ratio: 4:3; Image: Colour

Still Lifes is an experimental short which recontextualises traditional representations of women throughout art history. In doing so, it questions notions of identity, voice and the collective female experience.