Gary's Story (1980)
- Directed by
- Richard Michalak
- Genre
- comedy, romance
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An Australian short film that experiments with different modes and forms of filmmaking. It is a self-aware piece that focuses on its own existence as a film rather than telling a conventional story.
avant-gardeexperimentalself-referentialformalistplayfulfragmentedcerebralunconventional
What happens
Gary's Story is an Australian short film directed by Richard Michalak and written by Marc Rosenberg. It was produced through the Australian Film and Television School by Rolf De Heer. Adrian Martin's review in Cinema Papers said "Gary's Story doesn't pretend to be about anything other than its own existence as film, its game of trying on a multiplicity of modes and forms." Eric Campbell in Tharunka described it as "a hard held camera job which is probably best described as avantgarde Opunka". The film won 1980 Australian Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film, and a Sammy Award for Best Short Fiction Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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