Animus

What happens when your soul is stolen by a trickster and stored in a chest freezer.

  • Jane Austin
    Director
    'Liminal' and 'So Happy. Together'
  • Jane Austin
    Writer
    'Liminal' and 'So Happy. Together'
  • Jane Austin
    Producer
    'Liminal' and 'So Happy. Together'
  • Francoise Angenieux
    Key Cast
    'Liminal'
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 3, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    iPhone5
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • N/A
Director Biography - Jane Austin

Jane Austin is a film maker experimenting with illustration, poetry and dance to explore her dreams.

Executive Member of Coaston Screen film collective, Austin combines her love of film with her passion for dreaming. She is a member of Dream Network Australia (DNA) and the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and is a graduate of the Assisi Institute’s Jungian Dream Patterning certificate and other dream study.

Her current project is a six-part 'Fable' series, and has completed 'Liminal' 2016 and 'Animus', 2017, and is currently in pre-production on 'Mesmeric'.

She has also worked on a number of films, a six-part web series and 8-month video podcast series. She has also produced a play and a live performance.

Holding a BA in Literature, she is a published poet, holds TESOL teaching qualifications and has worked in the Adult Migrant language teaching sector as a teacher, coordinator, resource developer and curriculum designer.

She has also worked in corporate and marketing communications roles in Education & Training and for two years as a script editor in news and current affairs at ABC, SBS and TCN Channel 9.

She is currently an Academic Coordinator at NAISDA Dance College, supporting the development of an innovative arts-based curriculum for Indigenous students .

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Director Statement

I made this little animated fable, experimenting with illustration, voice and poetry, to explore a profound dream. This dream showed me my soul was stolen by a trickster and was now languishing in a chest freezer, amongst packets of frozen bait and peas.

I was inspired into immediate action, and since then I've found my way out of the labyrinth and into the sunshine.

I'm hoping that in this short I have capture the 'charge' of the dream, so I can pay it forward to others who, like me, have lost parts of themselves, and haven't yet found the bravery to call those parts home.

I'm honouring a number of profound dreams in my 'Fable' animated series. 'Animus' is the second film.