Stand By For Tape Back-Up
Synopsis
Inspired by the 1980s stoner mainstay of matching up 'The Wizard of Oz' with Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon, Ross draws out a series of stories from his life, synchronising them with the images on the tape. In the process, fragments of old films and TV shows are looped, destroyed, and re-built into an audiovisual meditation on memory, death and re-runs.
Hot Docs International Film Festival 2015 - World Premiere
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - UK Premiere
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 63 mins
- Director
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Ross Sutherland 1st Feature
- Producer
- Ross Sutherland, Charlie Lyne
- Editor
- Ross Sutherland, Charlie Lyne
- Screenwriter
- Ross Sutherland
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