Late last Saturday night, Paul Harris joined Headley Gritter and a panel including Stephen Curry, Matt Saville and Dave Lawson for RRR's The Party Show to talk about their careers, philosophies and SKFF.
Curry (perhaps best known for roles in The Castle and The King), Lawson (standup comedian) and Saville (director of We Can Be Heroes and The King) collaborated on a short film which features in this year's Top 100, titled Bonny Doon. The film, a car-set impromptu tour-de-force, was allegedly made on the budget of "a bucket of KFC" and is "a wonderful journey from A to A" as Curry describes.
When asked (by its makers) why the film was chosen to screen at the Festival, Harris answered that as a curator of a film festival, he looks for films that stand out, aren't made to a "house style" meaning it isn't 'the norm' -- and when "something as idiosyncratic as [Bonny Doon]" comes along, it's hard not to pay attention.
Another guest to feature on the show was Natasha Pincus, director of the music video monolith 'Somebody That I Used to Know' (with over 215 million views... oh my golly!) who describes her success as having a paradoxical effect -- "Life is completely like it was. But nothing like it was." When asked when she was planning next to make a film clip she said "I'm careful when picking projects because they take a long time". Unlike the few hours it took to film Bonny Doon "it took 26 hours" of (mostly) naked Gotye and Kimbra covered in body paint.
Catch the work of Curry, Saville, Lawson and Pincus during the festival:
Bonny Doon -- Top 100 Session Five: 9pm Friday, May 25
Somebody That I Used To Know -- SoundKilda: 9pm Thursday, May 24
Listen to the hilarious banter of Headley and company online at http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/
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