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Endlessnessism

(12 mins, 16mm, 2021, Australia)

EPILEPSY WARNING!

A 16mm erotic trip about two friends who play a game where each rule prescribes them to act out their most violent and perverse private fantasies.

  • Liam Clark
    Director
  • Liam Clark
    Writer
  • Amelia Crawford
    Producer
  • Dylan Julian Clark
    Key Cast
    "Ezra"
  • Avril Tait
    Key Cast
    "Charlotte"
  • Ian Tyley
    Director Of Photography
  • Gene Clark
    Composer
  • Liam Clark
    Composer
  • Rowan Yeomans
    Sound Supervisor
  • Liam Clark
    Editor
  • Olivia dodd
    Production Design
  • Project Type:
    Student
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 6, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    14,000 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Australian Film Television and Radio School
Director Biography - Liam Clark

Liam Clark is an award-winning Sydney-based filmmaker who holds a MA of Research in French Literature and Post-Structuralist Philosophy from Macquarie and a MA of Arts Screen: Editing from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). He has a book of poetry published and has written and directed multifarious short films and music videos including ‘Broke and Criminal’ which won ‘Best Student Music Video’ at Clipped Music Video Festival. His latest short film ‘Endlessnessism’ was shot on 16mm and is currently in the film festival circuit playing around the world.

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Director Statement

'Endlessnessism' incorporates the use of scratched and hand painted 16mm film to give texture and depth to the images prior to digitising. To explore the notion of cinema as a bodily extension and in an attempt to arise out of some total area of being or full life, direct physical engagement with the medium was employed to achieve the organs possibilities as a physical continuation.

Droplets of blood and semen were applied along the frames with a clear film leader on top, then re-photographed - the results produced corporeal impressionistic frames that are flickered throughout the film.

With elements of Structural Film, I also appropriated Gysin’s and Burroughs ‘Dreamachine’ to create a flicker sequence in the vein of Tony Conrad and Paul Sharits.