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Julia

A family arm-wrestling battle and a strange radio program lead a father and son to profound realisations about their place in the world.

  • James Weir
    Director
    Thirty Pieces, No Burn Day
  • James Weir
    Writer
    Thirty Pieces, No Burn Day
  • Erin Friedman
    Producer
  • Clayton D. Moss
    Key Cast
    "Jeremy"
    Bully, Abandoned
  • Kevin Ryan
    Key Cast
    "Ed"
  • Orlando Long
    Key Cast
    "Marcus"
  • Chloe Shwank
    Key Cast
    "Elle"
  • Sam White
    Key Cast
    "Ted"
  • Caitlin Wood
    Key Cast
    "Mary "
  • Edmond Long
    Key Cast
    "Liam"
  • Anna McGahan
    Key Cast
    "Radio Presenter"
    Anzac Girls, Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, family drama, experimental
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 9, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,500 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, ARRI
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - James Weir

James is a writer, director, producer and editor, as well as the co-founder of Fax Machine, a Sydney-based production company specialising in independent narrative film.

After graduating from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2019, he screened his final project 'Thirty Pieces' around Europe where it won Best Film and Audience Favourite at the experimental Hell Chest Festival in Gibraltar, Spain.

James is currently in pre-production for a his debut feature 'Lady Lazarus', which he will co-directing with long-term collaborator Jack Clark under Fax Machine. It tells the story of a bride-to-be with chronic separation anxiety who decides to host her own fiancé’s stag night on a country estate, but in doing so incites several of the attending groomsmen to deliberately antagonise her condition.

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Director Statement

Inspired by the poem 'wrist-wrestling father' by Orval Lund, 'Julia' is a meditation on the existential dread one feels when their perspective of their place in the world suddenly shifts.

Whilst a man beats his father in an arm-wrestling match for the very first time, his son listens to a radio program that reveals the world to be so much larger that he once thought. Through juxtaposed sight and sound, my intent was too present familial and cosmic revelations as two sides of a single story.