Spectre

A summoning, cleansing and releasing ritual for the many ghosts of lutruwita.

  • Kyle Faulkner
    Director
    Street
  • Kyle Faulkner
    Producer
    Street
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    35 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 27, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Polish International Film Festival
    Warsaw
    Poland
    December 4, 2023
    Official Selection
  • HIFF - Halo International Film Festival
    St Petersburg
    Russian Federation
    December 11, 2023
    Best Experimental Film
  • Casino Film Festival
    Hong Kong
    China
    December 18, 2023
    Best Experimental Film
  • TopShot International Film Festival
    Warsaw
    Poland
    December 30, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Symbiotic Film Festival
    Kiev
    Ukraine
    January 13, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Voice of the Future - IFF
    Vilnius
    Lithuania
    January 20, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Horror Screenings Film Festival Bloody Mirror
    Tbilisi
    Georgia
    April 5, 2024
    Best Experimental Horror Film; Best Film
  • Fotofilm International Short Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    April 26, 2024
    Best Experimental Short Film
  • St Kilda Film Festival
    St Kilda
    Australia
    June 6, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Red Fox International Film Festival
    Tbilisi
    Georgia
    June 30, 2024
    Quarter-Finalist
  • Australia Independent Film Festival
    Brisbane
    Australia
    October 26, 2024
    Quarter-Finalist
Director Biography - Kyle Faulkner

Kyle Faulkner became dependent on the fume of cinema from the age of 7 and has suffered through the phases of awe-struck Kubrickian, movie-nerd, unhealthy obsessive, annoying scholar, critic & theorist, and has now reached the restive over-saturated state of what he coins cinema dementia. He made his first feature film at the age of 15 and has since made numerous films with many different styles and approaches. He has a Certificate III & IV in Film and has studied directing with NIDA and under John Dommett. He has worked in mental health, studied natural medicine, romanticism, and Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to post-structuralism, and has an extensive knowledge of cinema, music and literature. His primary affinities are mental and spiritual health, nature, Spinozism, difference ethics, and 80s power ballads.

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Director Statement

I made this in Tasmania, one of the earth’s well-known haunted hotspots. Filming took place as a series of rituals at significant locations of high spectral activity, sometimes in the witching hour. I spent the best part of the year with the ghosts, to be with my kind, not to hunt and contain but to console, and facilitate escape.

(Hi res version available upon request)