8th(2006)
Plains Empty
Beck Cole
- Australia
- 2005
- 28min
- 35mm
- color
SYNOPSIS
When her husband leaves to work in a mine, Sam is left to spend more time on her own. She goes to a bar for consolation, but gazes of men at the bar are tough and threatening. On her way back home, she encounters the ghost of a native girl. Sam starts her search for the girl’s identity. Unlike a powerless male neighbor who becomes insane on the barren landscape of masculine violence, Sam assuages the ghost’s grudges and receives peace of mind by facing the nature of violence. Using the form of a horror film, director Beck Cole shows his talent to describe how a woman copes with violence and isolation. (Denise Hyuk-sang Lee)
PROGRAM NOTE
When her husband leaves to work in a mine, Sam is left to spend more time on her own. She goes to a bar for consolation, but gazes of men at the bar are tough and threatening. On her way back home, she encounters the ghost of a native girl. Sam starts her search for the girl’s identity. Unlike a powerless male neighbor who becomes insane on the barren landscape of masculine violence, Sam assuages the ghost’s grudges and receives peace of mind by facing the nature of violence. Using the form of a horror film, director Beck Cole shows his talent to describe how a woman copes with violence and isolation. (Denise Hyuk-sang Lee)
Director
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Beck ColeBeck Cole
Beck Cole is a writer/director based in Alice Springs. She completed an MA in Documentary Directing at Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2001, where she made The Creepy Crawley’s and The Good Fight. Her first drama Flat was selected to screen at the 2004 Sundance and 2003 Edinburgh Film Festivals and screened on SBS Television. Beck is also a writer on two upcoming drama series ? a CAAMA Production Double Trouble and an SBS Independent production The Circuit. She is also writing a feature project.
Credit
- ProducerKath Shelper
- Cast Ngaire Pigram, Gerard Kennedy, Kerry Naylon
- Screenwriter Beck Cole
- Cinematography Warwick Thornton
- Editor Andrew Macneil
- Music Cliff Bradley
