Bill Mousoulis
Directing
Biography
Bill Mousoulis is an Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name. He is also the founder of the online film journal Senses of Cinema in 1999, and the founder of the film co-operative Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985.
Known For
A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.
Open City
A look back at the film-maker's career, via the use of out-takes, unused scenes, scenes from uncompleted films, home movie footage, etc.
When I Grow Up
From the Australian underground comes a dynamic gothic original. Z and X are vampires bound by love and driven by their lust for blood. Together they stalk their unsuspecting prey in the dark streets and back alleys of Melbourne, but tonight they aren't the only killers lurking in the shadows. A moody and atmospheric thriller, A NOCTURNE: NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE is a sophisticated reworking of the vampire genre with film noir stylistics.
A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire
A teenage boy stoner lives with his single mother.
Youth on the March
The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
Between Us
A 13-year-old boy comes home from school and goes out. He meets up with a friend and they go to various places together, interacting with various people. An unassuming and meditative, observational film exploring that dead time between "schools out" and evening. A film of small moments but big meanings.
After School
A lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.
Kosta
A portrait of Melbourne in Spring '04 (September/October), a mosaic of different stories: an angel desires to be human; a young couple cope with long-distance relating; a novelist unexpectedly falls pregnant; a woman from London discovers Melbourne; and a disenfranchised man, with a gambling debt, becomes involved with an underworld gang.
Spring Rhapsody
An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.
Wild and Precious
A day in the life of an unemployed youth.
Back to Nature
A diary film, chronicling six days in the life of a woman in her early 30's. A portrait of isolation, striving, rejection and hope.
My Blessings
Various tableaux of Melbourne in 1989, as experienced by the film-maker.
Melbourne '89
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.
Holy Land
In the winter of 1998, the earth was overrun by many millennium prophets, whilst the suburbanites lived their suburban lives. Underground, artists and other vagabonds flourished, their activities illuminated by a dark and pure underground sky.
Underground Sky
Compilation of the best of Mousoulis' Super 8 short films. Contains Dreams Never End, Crazy Motherfucker, Knowing Me Knowing You, Physical World, Fit Waters '95-?, Embrace, Melbourne '89, J.C.: The Jewellery-Case, Love, How Soon is Now?, Holy Land, Faith.
Super Dreams
A bicycle seat. A roof. A car park. Light. Shadow. The aperture control. Piano. Synthesizer. Delay effects. A sci-fi/horror fantasy ... the shadows have landed.
The Shadows
A documentrary portrait of some of Greece’s underground music artists, and their songs of resistance and anger.
Songs of the Underground
A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music.
Songs of Revolution
The film shows two Melbourne youths and their summer activities. One makes films and the other holidays at Phillip Island. But, despite their differences, they both, in their own ways, aspire to infinity.
Aspire to Infinity
A Turkish man and Greek woman fall in and out of love.