Video of the Week – Two Men

By Dan Hutton on November 25, 2012 in Video

Two Men from Dominic Allen on Vimeo.

While searching for a Video of the Week about something local I stumbled across this little short film and thought it was a bit of a winner.

It was actually a Flickerfest entrant and has won a number of awards worldwide.

According to its director, “The story was originally a very short Franz Kafka short, “Passers By” first published sometime between 1908 and 1913 which I fleshed out into a script and added quite a bit too after making a short doco in Fitzroy Crossing.”

“My hope was that by retelling a hundred year old philosophical tale set in European city at night in such a different context as deep in the Australian Kimberley in the heat of a sunny day and by having it retold by a modern Indigenous thinker, I would affirm an element of humanities commonality, celebrate the robust and healthy youth of Fitzroy Crossing and reinforce Kafka’s point that it’s impossible to ever truly know another’s motivations.”