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Podcast: Interview Matt Zeremes + Oliver Torr
Artistic Director Lynden Barber chats with Matt Zeremes + Oliver Torr about their Sydney-based feature Burke and Wills
Two of the finest discoveries of last year's SFF were the local guerrilla productions Blacktown and The Magician. Now comes this extraordinarily accomplished, independently funded Sydney feature, which is already making international waves, having just screened at New York's Tribeca filmfest. Forget the explorers: the film is a pricelessly deadpan slacker tragicomedy featuring two ill-matched young housemates. Burke is your stereotypical Aussie bloke of few words, Wills babbles endlessly about nothing much. One of them will go on to professional success while ruining his love life, the other, well, just wait and see. A virtual masterpiece of understatement filled with often hilarious and sometimes painfully acute observations of human foibles.
FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHY
Burke and Wills is both Matthew Zeremes’ and Oliver Torr’s directorial debut. They have worked as actors in Australia on screen and stage for the past three years since graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at the end of 2002. Matt and Oliver are currently completing the final draft of their next feature film Parasite. Matthew and Oliver’s company CAKE has produced six plays in Sydney, including Tiny Dynamite, which was named Best Fringe production of the year by The Sun Herald.
