Feature Narrative/2022/Australia/90min/Directed by Tim Carlier

Q&A: Tim Carlier, Manuel Ashman

Sound recordist Manny knows the rule, never lose a microphone… so when an actress leaves the set with a radio mic he has to get it back. 

Manny, armed with only a boom mic, stumbles through an increasingly surreal world – a journey through music videos, a meeting with a time traveller and the dreaded Sound Council. 

A beautifully realised work that reimagines film sounds with surprising and magical results. Like Platon Theodoris’s The Lonely Spirits Happy Hour (seen at Revelation 2022) Paco finds a beauty and magic in a storytelling of the not-quite-everyday, hinting at a unique trend in contemporary Australian cinema. 

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023