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8. Two Men
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Award winning Australian short film, Two Men, directed by Dominic Allen and shot in the Kimberly town of Fitzroy Crossing by Joel Betts, features a robust and dynamic cast of indigenous Australian non actors. With an original soundtrack by Melbourne artist Felix Riebl, Based on Kafka's short story, Two Men Running, Allen's short film has been screened internationally at film festivals including New York, Prague, London, Melbourne and Sydney and in 2009 was a Dendy Australian Short Film of the Year finalist.
The film was instrumental in supporting director Dominic Allen's Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the 2009 Inside Film Rising Talent Award.
2009 MIFF Jury member Deb Verhoeven remarked "Two Men proves that the simplest scenario can provide the perfect premise for conveying the most profound insights. But (Allen's) key achievement is to understand that even the largest ideas are best told with brevity and the most serious with humour."
Two Men was made with the support of Yiriman, a community initiated and community driven project supported by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre which aims to build stories, strength and resilience in the Kimberley's youth.
Two Men is distributed by Flickerfest.
The film was instrumental in supporting director Dominic Allen's Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the 2009 Inside Film Rising Talent Award.
2009 MIFF Jury member Deb Verhoeven remarked "Two Men proves that the simplest scenario can provide the perfect premise for conveying the most profound insights. But (Allen's) key achievement is to understand that even the largest ideas are best told with brevity and the most serious with humour."
Two Men was made with the support of Yiriman, a community initiated and community driven project supported by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre which aims to build stories, strength and resilience in the Kimberley's youth.
Two Men is distributed by Flickerfest.
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I really enjoyed the initial mystery of the runner and then hearing the VO in english. Kind of threw me a little expecting to hear a foreign language, but the pretty cinematography in the seemingly foreign place was what really drew me to the short.
Nice work.
Thanks for your feedback, I am really pleased that you like the movie and thanks so much for sharing it.
The story was originally a very short Franz Kafka short, "Passers By" first published sometime between 1908 and 1913 which I fleshed out into a script and added quite a bit too after making a short doco in Fitzroy Crossing. You can read the original here: endeneu.com/kafka/passersby.html
In 2008 I worked closely with the narrator, Ismahl Croft, a Fitzroy Crossing community leader, and an Indigenous Australian youth organisation called Yiriman, tailoring the story to an Aboriginal Australian context. Together we developed the original concept out into quite a few more scenarios than Kafka. Ismahl also translated my script into Walmajarri Creol, which while very close to English, is a local dialect.
My hope was that by retelling a hundred year old philosophical tale set in European city at night in such a different context as deep in the Australian Kimberley in the heat of a sunny day and by having it retold by a modern Indigenous thinker, I would affirm an element of humanities commonality, celebrate the robust and healthy youth of Fitzroy Crossing and reinforce Kafka's point that it's impossible to ever truly know another's motivations.
Thanks again Blake!
Best Regards,
Dom
Really enjoyed the mystery of the runners.
Nice work
what kind lenses did you use?
Two Men was shot on a Red Camera at 4k 2:1, with an Angenieux HR 25-250mm T3.5 Zoom Lens.
We shot the running scenes from the back of a Ute, resting the camera on a swag!
Thanks for your feedback,
Dom
Is a great work guys!!
Congratulations on having made this.
Either way, he really made the piece for me.
Thanks for your feedback. Non of the cast, or the narrator, are actors. It's not clear but the guy playing the "Thinker", Claude Forrest, is actually not reading the script, which is another guy, called Ismahl Croft, who collaborated closely on the translation with me. Cheers Jordan, Dom
Keep up the great work.
If Peter stopped the guy, he wouldn't have shot his uncle!
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We need more from Australia!!!!! Continued success!!!!!!!
great job.
The English never threw me off once.... I thought it was perfect!
It was just too good to not share with the people who read us.
Cheers!
Dom
Congratulations!
"you just bloody never know!" - perfection!
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I love it.