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Passionless Moments

Country: Australia, Language: English, 13 mins

  • Director: Jane Campion; Gerard Lee
  • Writer: Jane Campion; Gerard Lee
  • Producer: Jane Campion; Gerard Lee

CGiii Comment

Humble beginnings indeed...what a strange sense-of-humour Ms Campion has/had...onwards and upwards.

Hope for us all!


Watch...

Passionless Moments from Norm Friesen on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

A voice says, "There are 1,000,000 moments in your neighborhood; each has a fragile presence which fades almost as it forms." Ten such moments are dramatized, from a chubby man exercising and realizing that "sex" and "thing" go together to an ill, bored child discovering that most pieces of paper fit on top of a Scotties box. Along the way, a child races time, a matron thinks she hears a woodpecker, an unfaithful gay man wonders why his eyes can't focus on two depths simultaneously, Angela thinks about her uncle's pet pig as she eats pork, beer-drinking Ed recalls his school football days and vows to get back in shape, and a bachelor remembers his mother.

Cast & Characters

David Benton as Ed Tumbury;
Ann Burriman as Gwen Gilbert;
Alan Brown as Neighbor / Neighbor;
Sean Callinan as Jim Newbury;
Paul Chubb as Jim Simpson;
Sue Collie as Angela Elliott;
Haedyn Cunningham as Board Member;
Ron Gobert as Board Member;
Elias Ibrahim as Ibrahim Ibrahim;
Paul Melchert as Arnold;
George Nezovic as Gavin Metchalle;
Jamie Pride as Lyndsay Aldridge;
Gordon Quiller as Board Member;
Keith Smith as Board Member;
Yves Stening as Shaun