CHAPTER 2A FEATURES IN DEVELOPMENT
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CORROBOREE
Official Selection 2007 Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth
International Film Festivals
Official Selection 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection 2008 Berlin International Film Festival
Technical Information
Working title: Corroboree
Status: Post Production
Director: Ben Hackworth
Producer: Matteo Bruno
Writers: Ben Hackworth and Peter Savieri
Cast: Conor O'Hanlon, Rebecca Frith, Susan Lyons, Natasha Herbert, Margaret Mills, Jane McArthur and Ian Scott as The Director.
Director of Photography: Katie Milwright
Editor: Cindy Clarkson
Country: Australia
Genre: Drama
Gauge: S16mm (with anticipated 35mm blowup)
Duration: 90 minutes
Production Company:
I Won't Grow Up Pty Ltd
Contact: Matteo Bruno
PO Box 90 Prahran, Victoria 3181 Australia
T/F: +61 3529 4048
M: +61 (0)402 857 727
E: matteobruno@iinet.net.au
Conor O'Hanlon as himself and Natasha
Herbert (Lena)
A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions and over a weekend must perform scenes from the director's life. He visits different rooms encountering five actresses who all portray the key women in the director's life.
Susan Lyons (Verna) and Natasha Herbert
(Lena -- getting ready to play Verna)
Natasha Herbert (Lena) and Gilligan
Herbert (Thomas)
The actresses rehearse the boy to play the lead role in the unmade film. The dying director watches his progress as the young boy searches to inhabit the director's identity. These secret interactions are recorded by one of the women's sons and taken to a locked room....
The actresses create an ethereal and ghostly world where they tantalize the handsome young muse with all their womanly tricks: arousal, suffocation, jealousy and beguiling erotic demonstration.
It's an Alice in Wonderland tale but in this case the protagonist is a young man. He comes for a series of workshops -- and as the audience -- we aren't familiar with the nature of the meetings he will encounter. Either is the boy. The audience will be intrigued, aroused and terrified as we're taken on an unpredictable journey of self discovery.
Susan Lyons (Verna) and Conor O'Hanlon
Conor O'Hanlon as himself
Stylistically, the film is comparable to Morrissey/ Warhol's early cult classics "Heat" and "Trash" and the distant erotic curiosity of Tsai Ming Lang's masterpieces "Vive L'amour" "Wayward Cloud" and the intensity of Cassavette's classic film "Faces" with Gena Rowlands.
The film is to be shot by KATIE MILWRIGHT, one of Australia 's most celebrated young cinematographers. She is the winner of the Women in Film Award for Australia 2006.
CORROBOREE / THE SERPENT / DESIGN FOR LIFE
