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A Little Death

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A Little Death
film poster for A Little Death (short film, 1995) by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel
EnglishA Little Death
Directed bySimon Perkins
Paul Swadel
Written bySimon Perkins
Paul Swadel
Screenplay bySimon Perkins
Paul Swadel
Story bySimon Perkins
Paul Swadel
Produced byJames Wallace
StarringJed Brophy
Josephine Davison
CinematographyPeter Bannan
Edited byPeter Evans
Music byDave Whitehead
Production
company
James Wallace Productions
Distributed byCreative New Zealand
Release dates
  • 1 January 1995 (1995-January-01) (Auckland, NZ)
Running time
10:52 minutes
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Budget(NZD) $13643

A Little Death is a 16mm short film that was created by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel in 1995.[1] The film was nominated for Best Short Film in the New Zealand Film and TV Awards in 1995. Its concept evolved from an earlier idea called 'Into The Void', which involve a male character walking in on his lover in bed with another. The interest of the idea centred on the ambiguity of the lover's gender, and by inference the sexual orientation of the observer.[2][3]

The film has been recognised as one of a select number of early NZ short films which pushed the envelope in terms of visual design and cinematic language.

The script for this film was written as a Beatscript[4][5] rather than a conventional screenplay. The film has been cited as one of a select number of shorts that heralded The Coming of Age of The New Zealand Short Film (Paul Shannon, 1995).

References

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  1. ^ Perkins, Simon; Swadel, Paul (1995). "A Little Death film credits" (PDF). folksonomy. UK. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  2. ^ Perkins, Simon; Swadel, Paul (Directors) (1995). A Little Death (16mm). Auckland, New Zealand: James Wallace Productions.
  3. ^ "A Little Death". folksonomy. UK. 24 February 2004. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  4. ^ Perkins, Simon (2005). "Beatscript: action-centred scripting for shortfilms and animations". folksonomy. UK. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  5. ^ Perkins, Simon (2005). "Beatscript: action-centred scripting for shortfilms and animations" (PDF). folksonomy. UK. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
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