Set over three days, Goody Goody Gumdrops is an absurd, comic observational musical documentary cum live album launch for Tropical Fuck Storm’s new album Deep States. Situated deep in Central Victoria on the banks of the Goulburn River at TFS HQ, we follow the band as they prepare for a rock show in their barn. Referencing the feel of the Australian Western and Australian Gothic (see Wake in Fright, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock) we travel with the band through their abject, weird and beautiful space. The weekend starts as the band welcomes you into their studio/cocktail lounge and teach you how to make their signature drink, The Tropical Fuck Fizz, then entertain you, Rat Pack style.
Direction
Barn-as-western-horror aesthetic that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Sound
Live album launch where the space itself becomes an instrument.
Production
DIY HQ transformed into cocktail lounge and gothic fever dream.
Director
Tropical Fuck Storm
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film explicitly situates itself in a lineage of Australian Gothic cinema—Wake in Fright's outback horror, Picnic at Hanging Rock's dream dread—but swaps the colonial anxiety for artistic commune energy.
Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin's domestic/creative partnership here mirrors their earlier work in The Drones, but this barn setting strips away rock mythology in favor of something almost uncomfortably intimate.
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