Spectre
A summoning, cleansing and releasing ritual for the many ghosts of lutruwita.
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Kyle FaulknerDirectorStreet
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Kyle FaulknerProducerStreet
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Project Type:Experimental
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Runtime:35 minutes 28 seconds
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Completion Date:October 27, 2022
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Country of Origin:Australia
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Country of Filming:Australia
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Shooting Format:16mm
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Polish International Film FestivalWarsaw
Poland
December 4, 2023
Official Selection -
HIFF - Halo International Film FestivalSt Petersburg
Russian Federation
December 11, 2023
Best Experimental Film -
Casino Film FestivalHong Kong
China
December 18, 2023
Best Experimental Film -
TopShot International Film FestivalWarsaw
Poland
December 30, 2023
Official Selection -
Symbiotic Film FestivalKiev
Ukraine
January 13, 2024
Official Selection -
Voice of the Future - IFFVilnius
Lithuania
January 20, 2024
Official Selection -
Horror Screenings Film Festival Bloody MirrorTbilisi
Georgia
April 5, 2024
Best Experimental Horror Film; Best Film -
Fotofilm International Short Film FestivalIstanbul
Turkey
April 26, 2024
Best Experimental Short Film -
St Kilda Film FestivalSt Kilda
Australia
June 6, 2024
Official Selection -
Red Fox International Film FestivalTbilisi
Georgia
June 30, 2024
Quarter-Finalist -
Australia Independent Film FestivalBrisbane
Australia
October 26, 2024
Quarter-Finalist
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.
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)