A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions; over a weekend he must perform scenes from the director's life. He visits different rooms encountering five actresses who all portray key women in the director's life. They rehearse the boy to play the lead role in an as yet 'unmade film'. The dying director watches young boy's progress as he searches to inhabit the director's identity. It's an Alice in Wonderland tale and an unpredictable journey of self discovery for all concerned...
Production
The retreat location itself becomes a suffocating character.
Acting
Five women collapsing into one man's fragmented memory.
Direction
Hackworth treats identity like mutable scenery.
Director
Ben Hackworth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jethro Cave is Nick Cave's son; his casting as 'Little Joe' adds meta-layers of inherited performance and masculine lineage.
The title refers to an Aboriginal ceremonial gathering—ironic given the film's themes of appropriated identity and performed ritual without community.
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