Australian Cinema Ensemble
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Angelo Salamanca Australian Cinema Ensemble |
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ReVivo ReVivo Press Kit (PDF download) Sometimes painful memories die hard and forgiveness is not always at hand. The eternal triangle looms large in the lives of three elderly people. Loves and loyalties shift and waiver like wind-tossed willows.
(alphabetical order) Nadia Andary, Serge De Nardo, Peter Frank, Keiran
King, Belinda Kirwan, Adam May, Nina Nicols, Giancarlo Salamanca, Angelo
Salamanca.
As a student of film theory and since making films, I’ve been fascinated by scenarios which tackle the milieu of the mundane against a backdrop of the epic. I recall as a teenager viewing for the first time such disparate films as Metropolis, Alphaville, The Conformist, Triumph of the Will, Le Regle du Jeu. What these fictional and documentary narratives offered was an insight into how the ordinary – given unusual circumstances and a tumultuous socio-political climate – may be sullied by the stain of corrupted and corruptible power. It’s this theme of how easily the psyche can jettison those principals which make us morally and ethically redeemable, that prompted the story for ReVivo. Over a period of seven years or so, ReVivo’s scenario and development were enhanced significantly by collaborating with Producer & Animator, Steve Middelton; Editor, Hayley Miro Browne; Sound Designer, Joe Looker; and by the fine work put in by the project’s committed voice actors.
Producer/Animator Steve Middleton is an artist, film maker and character animator from Melbourne, Australia. Middleton met Angelo Salamanca met during the "New Wave" of Melbourne film- making in the 1980’s. ReVivo is their latest collaboration, which began with the tele feature Closer And Closer Apart (Colosimo Films/Nine Network 1988), written by Salamanca and directed by Middleton. Since the 1990’s Middleton has generally worked with virtual reality and generative robotics. ReVivo is his first dramatic work on film for some time. Steve Middleton said "From the outset we wanted to minimise the use of computerised special effects., and I was personally intrigued by the possibility of respectfully representing aging characters without resorting to caricature." "The audiovisual world of ReVivo is almost entirely informed by the interior lives of its characters, honouring and building upon the actors’ vocal interpretations of their respective parts," "The dispersed, less hierarchical more collective structure of the Australian Cinema Ensemble offered an exceptional creative experience, and ReVivo is a remarkable tribute to the experience and creativity of all involved." For more about Steve Middleton’s work see
Hayley Miro Browne is a Melbourne based film editor with over a decade of experience in the feature film cutting room. She has worked as an editor on 14 features, many of which, during her early career, were as Jill Bilcock’s first assistant Editor/Co-Editor before graduating to lead editor. As Jill Bilcock’s 1st, Hayley worked on several features, notably Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark (Guillermo Del Toro), Red Dog (Kriv Stenders) and Blessed (Ana Kokkinos). Her Co-Editor debut was Driving Miss Daisy (2014 with Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones) followed by Shanghai Noir [‘Bao sou shen tan’] 2015 (Clara Law). Most recently Hayley has completed the picture edit for indie feature Life on Earth: Severance (Wee Arthur Films, in post-production), and Richard Gray’s latest production Robert the Bruce. Hayley has also edited several TC shows, video clips and short films such as AGONY: Guide to Life, An Open Letter to Uncle Edgar and several music videos – most recently Paul Kelly’s With the One I Love.
From getting his very first record, to his very first, brick sized ‘Walkman’, Joe Looker has surrounded himself with sounds of all kinds. At the age of seventeen, Joe began DJing professionally while studying sound design and composition in Canberra at CIT. He completed his undergraduate in film production at Deakin in 2009 and has been working in film, video and TV production ever since. Sound design credits include The Boardwalk and The Last Babushka Doll, with Revivo and Everything In Between currently in post-production. Joe has also worked extensively as a director, editor and camera operator and brings a solid knowledge and passion for film and sound to all of his work.
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