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My Happiest Memories.
My Happiest Memories is a poetic exploration of how people grapple with depression through nostalgia, art and personal experience. The film is told through the lens of our narrator, a young woman while reading aloud a poem as she flows in and out of depressive episodes and feelings of longing discontentment after she has moved away from home once again. She reflects and recontextualizes past experience and memories, all the while asking herself what it means to achieve happiness?
Year
2024
Director
Pearl Rielly-Murray
Producer/Cinematographer
Darcy Russell
Unraveling: A Poetic Doco.
Your brain doesn't wait for you to catch up to it. Nor does it focus when you want to focus. Frankly it's a frustrating thing that more often than not you can’t help feel is working against you. Unraveling attempts to analyse that neurodivergent sensory experience. Busy but lifeless. Void yet deafening. A violent ambience. The film is about how these opposites interact and coexist in the setting of Melbournes northern suburbs with some familiar sights.
Year
2023
Writer/Director/Producer/Co-DOP
Darcy Russell
Director of Photography
Thomas Fenner
A Realm of Raging Winds.
VCA Graduate Film. A Buddhist temple prepares for the Vu Lan festival. Wearing a white rose on his chest, a young monk cooks a meal of offering as dreams of a rainy day wash over him.
Year
2024
Director
Dang Tung (Ringo) Bach
Script Consultant/Additional Cinematography
Darcy Russell
Strangers.
A longing heart, tethered to another, needs to confront their own needs. Jasper finds himself broken down in rural Victoria. Phone without charge, he uses the phone booth and calls the only number he could ever remember, Molly. The two exes try to rekindle their flame but first must challenge themselves to confront the history they have.
Year
2023
Director
Ben Keller
Writers
Ben Keller & Darcy Russell
Mountain of Greed.
Three miners and a gold nugget. Mountain of Greed, set in the Australian gold rush follows Doyle, a young Irish immigrant working as a miner in hopes of fortune. Working with him are Lenny, the eldest and most aggressive of the three and George, a quiet and content man who keeps to himself. After finding their escape in the form of a large gold nugget the three mens true motivations are revealed. Consumed with greed, how far will they go for a golden glimmer of hope?
Year
2024
Director
Thomas Fenner
Script Consultant
Darcy Russell
Rest in Sleaze.
Rest in Sleaze is a morbid comedy that follows the greasy and eccentric owner/salesman of Zeus Wholesale Secondhand Caskets and Coffins. He is a man who would never pass on an opportunity to empty a mourning widows pockets. One day when a seemingly unsuspecting widow enters the store shopping for her deceased husband's casket, The Salesman is put to the test when the Widow spins his own game back on him.
Year
2023
Director
Darcy Russell
Writers
Brady Cooper and Darcy Russell
By the Way.
Practically inseparable Eliyah and Tai find themselves nearing adulthood. For Eliyah, this is exciting. She has found a university course and an escape from their town. For Tai however this means staying place and stuck in their bigoted home and small town without anyone to talk to. The two girls spend a final day together riding their bikes and breaking into neighbours properties before Eliyah has to say goodbye.
Year
2023
Director
Mica Emslie-Payne
Producer
Darcy Russell