A film made for the Melbourne Super-8 Film Group's "Postcode" series. In this case, images of 3066 (Collingwood), set to Patti Smith's "Spell" - holy, holy, all is holy.
A cheeky instructional film on the uses and abuses of the cinematographic apparatus, with the ensuing results enlivened by the music of David Dangerfield.
Ali Alizadeh reads English translations of Rumi and Hafiz, as well as his own contemporary Sufi poems. Accompanying the poems, the film follows six characters on their individual journeys of disenchantment, awakening and bliss: a poet and dancer who are struggling with their art, and four lovesick...
A love letter is written and then sent off. There are two worlds - the one we have and the one we dream about. This film is all about the attempt to bridge the gap between the two.
A document of various '45's, various 'singles'. Bill, Eléni, and George. Diary film? Documentary film? Fiction film? All this and more, in the film-maker's 45th film.
