Some Static Started
2011 · 8m · Australia
Directed by Ben Briand
Genres: experimental, thriller
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
A bleeding man and a girl in trouble encounter each other in a hot highway motel in what functions as a waking nightmare of memory and identity. Sequel to Briand's acclaimed film Apricot.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Lynch did it first but Briand does it shorter and in a hot Australian motel. A sequel that assumes you haven't seen the first film and doesn't care — bleeding man, girl in trouble, memory as landscape. Australian Directors Guild nominated it, which means the adults noticed.
Ben Briand following Apricot with a motel noir on dream logic — cause and effect suspended, identity bleeding. Pre-Twin Peaks: The Return in spirit, and confident about its refusals.
Ben Briand following up Apricot with a motel-noir nightmare on dream logic — cause and effect suspended, identity bleeding. 7:56 of carefully sustained ambiguity in the Lost Highway lineage.
Festivals
- Australian Director's Guild Awards 2010, Nomination