Experiencing Interruptions?

Chicken Dinner

Made during the COVID-19 pandemic, this film is a play on ‘winner winner, chicken dinner’, a phrase often used by Australians to celebrate personal victory. It reflects on the selfishness that was prevalent in Melbourne as we headed into each lockdown. With panic-buying stripping supermarket aisles bare, even those who wanted to take the moral high ground began to think - if you can’t beat them, do you join them?

  • Natasha Cantwell
    Director
  • Reilly Smethurst & Mathias Pontévia
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 25, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    New Zealand
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English, No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Experimental Superstars
    Novi Sad
    Serbia
    November 18, 2022
  • Timeline BH Festival
    Belo Horizonte
    Brazil
    November 3, 2022
  • Lacuna International Contemporary Art Festival
    Haría
    Spain
    July 2, 2022
  • World Cinema Carnival
    Kolkata
    India
    January 28, 2022
  • Festival Internacional de Videoarte SPMAV
    Pelotas
    Brazil
    November 11, 2021
  • Pugnant Film Series
    Athens
    Greece
    September 3, 2021
  • Experiments in Cinema
    Albuquerque, NM
    United States
    May 1, 2021
  • UNCG Sustainability Shorts Film Competition
    Greensboro, NC
    United States
    April 22, 2021
  • Videoformes
    Clermont-Ferrand
    France
    March 18, 2021
  • Corona and Climate Crisis
    Berlin
    Germany
    October 16, 2020
Director Biography - Natasha Cantwell

Natasha Cantwell is a Melbourne-based experimental filmmaker whose work explores the tension between inner and outer selves. Drawing on performance art and horror cinema, her 16mm films balance humour with unease. Her work has screened internationally, including at Experiments in Cinema in the United States, as well as Stuttgart Filmwinter and EMAF in Germany. In 2025, she undertook an artist residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland.

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