Immersion
Precious water in a changing climate... An impressionist journey through the Australian landscape
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John WinterDirectorBlack & White & Sex, Mirror Mirror, Apartment 1911
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John WinterProducerRabbit-Proof Fence, Paperback Hero, Doing Time for Patsy Cline, My Mother Frank
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Bronwyn ElliottProducer
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Annette RaysEffects & Graphic Designer
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John WinterDirector Of PhotographyApartment 1911
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John WinterEditorApartment 1911
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John WinterSound DesignerApartment 1911
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Annette RaysTitle DesignMirror Mirror, Black & White & Sex
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short
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Runtime:24 minutes 9 seconds
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Completion Date:June 1, 2019
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Country of Origin:Australia
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Country of Filming:Australia
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Shooting Format:Digital 4K
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Distribution Information
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Wintertime FilmsCountry: WorldwideRights: All Rights
Producer turned experimental filmmaker, John is now focusing on his writing and directing. His short film Mirror Mirror screened at 27 festivals including Frameline32, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and it opened the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. His ATOM award winning feature film, Black & White & Sex screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, was in competition in Taipei as well as screening at the Sydney & Brisbane festivals. His short, Apartment 1911, screened at Byron International Film Festival. His latest film offering is the experimental, environmental short film, Immersion.
John’s numerous producing credits include Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paperback Hero (Hugh Jackman), Berlin entrant My Mother Frank (Sam Neil), Sydney Film Festival opening night film, Doing Time for Patsy Cline and Vacant Possession.
The idea for Immersion first surfaced when traveling on the dry, outback Oodnadatta track. The track follows the springs at the edge of the Great Artesian Basin; the springs that the local Aboriginal people pointed out to the thirsty nineteenth century European explorers; the springs that fed the new cattle farms and steam engines that transported the cattle to market; the springs that have been so depleted over the last 200 years.
Australia is about water. And so is Immersion. It is an experiential film about a time of climate change... rising temperatures and flooding rains.
Shot throughout central and eastern Australia, I watched the passing world through each of the vehicle’s windows like split screens merging to create a sort of ‘moving image impressionism’.
I explored split screens as an alternative way of seeing the world in my last two films: Black & White & Sex and Apartment 1911. In Immersion I take this idea further. I wanted to explore how the mind reacts to simultaneous multiple, moving images.
I wanted Immersion to be an interactive experience for the audience, allowing them to choose which of the split screens to follow. Although there is only one film being screened, every participant views their own, unique version of the film each time they view it.