2013 Directed by Warwick Thornton
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.
Warwick Thornton's left of centre follow up to the stunning Samson & Delilah is series of recast recountings of Aboriginal ghost stories. A call was put out and over a hundred encounters by Aboriginals or with Aboriginal ghosts (by white people) were recorded, the tellers interviewed on screen. Those interviews were then narrowed down and collated and rerecorded, mostly with professional (and well known) actors.
The film is a strange series of verbatim theatre plays, the texts lifted directly it seems and recreated by the actors. It seems to work best when the actors are minimising their performances (Bryan Brown) or when they are unrecognisable. Claudia Karvan's segment is much too "reenacted". Couple with the separate segments is disparate styles across…
Warwick Thornton's left of centre follow up to the stunning Samson & Delilah is series of recast recountings of Aboriginal ghost stories. A call was put out and over a hundred encounters by Aboriginals or with Aboriginal ghosts (by white people) were recorded, the tellers interviewed on screen. Those interviews were then narrowed down and collated and rerecorded, mostly with professional (and well known) actors.
The film is a strange series of verbatim theatre plays, the texts lifted directly it seems and recreated by the actors. It seems to work best when the actors are minimising their performances (Bryan Brown) or when they are unrecognisable. Claudia Karvan's segment is much too "reenacted". Couple with the separate segments is disparate styles across…
