A 67-minute fever dream where fashion photography meets mountain madness. Hicks' hidden student film gem.
A young photographer Simon Jess (David Cameron) is given an assignment to shoot some backgrounds for a fashion display in the Snowy Mountains.
Cinematography
Snowy Mountains as existential void—gorgeous and threatening.
Direction
Scott Hicks' student film before Shine, raw and searching.
Director
Scott Hicks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for under $5,000 while Hicks was still at Flinders University; nearly lost until a 2016 archive restoration.
Hicks later called it 'the film where I learned that landscape is character'—a thesis he'd prove with Shine's Adelaide.
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