A short created by a student for the 2004 ACMI Diegesis secondary school media festival.
An abstract narrative about dream flashbacks of a disturbing nature. A child survives a car accident in which his father was killed. He has contiinuing mental flashbacks and consequently this makes him fear death. He is bitten on the arm by a fly, and this begins a surreal experience of messages being relayed to him via the fly bites. A surreal thriller where confusion between the dream self and the real self is explored.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1006718
Language
English
Audience classification
ACMI classified
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Surrealism in motion pictures
Amateur & Student Films → Student films - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
DVCAM; Master
DVCAM; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan