“An extraordinary immersion into remoteness, between elegy and ode.”
Crusoe Of Tin City
An old man and his dog spend their last days at the end of the world.
Director Profile
Yannick Jamey
Director Bio :
Born in Australia, raised in France and educated in Canada — I am a multi-cultural self-taught filmmaker who loves a project that marries travel with filmmaking.
I am currently exploring films about people and places — traveling to a fascinating landscape or location, meeting fascinating people there and then working it into a hybrid of documentary and fiction.
I currently have four more short documentaries in the works with similar approaches but about different subject matters.
Director Statement :
This is my first short film, made entirely on my own and shot over the course of multiple trips to this unique location in Australia. At first, I started with a documentary approach but in the editing room it turned into something more abstract, following a loose narrative.
I felt that there was a poetry to the images and the character’s silence that spoke for itself. There was also somehow a childlike feeling to it, echoing ‘The Little Prince’, which spoke to me. And so I decided to write a poem specifically for the images, read by a child — a prophetic, almost “impossible” voice if you will, which becomes open to interpretation.
So this became, quite unexpectedly, a very personal and experimental film for me, that simply explores a feeling, a fantasy or metaphor… about childhood, about being cast away, about trying to find a decent place to lay our head.
