Dennis Tupicoff

In the world's first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, the great photographer Nadar interviews the famous scientist and sceptic Chevreul on his 100th birthday. In their own words - originally recorded in shorthand - they discuss photography, colour theory, Moliere, the scientific method, the crazy ideas of balloonists, and - of course - how to live for 100 years. These two legends of the 19th century have a lively and interesting conversation. One was born before the French revolution; the other was destined to see the marvels of the aeroplane and the movies.

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest. The One-Minute Memoir is the exuberant result: eleven stories ranging from the heartfelt to the absurd, all reflective of each director’s personal style.

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.

On 25 April 1995 16 year old Matthew Easdale was shot in Brisbane. His mother was interviewed on the radio. Using rotoscoped animation the film presents the story in two very different ways.

Confronted by his daughter's wish to own a dog, award-winning animator Dennis Tupicoff recalls the dogs of his childhood, in the industrial outer Brisbane suburb of Darra. Every household seemed to have a dog. Some were friends who shared his explorations and roamed free on adventures of their own before meeting an untimely death or simply disappearing. Some were huge, savage beasts who prowled around like the hounds of hell. This film is his memorial to those times, those feelings and to the dogs themselves.

During a family outing to a cinema, a young boy falls asleep. His mind flashes back to an early memory where, as a toddler, his family try to take a photo of him in their backyard. As he drifts in and out of sleep, his memory and the present begin to merge. Dennis Tupicoff's 2017 short film premiered at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film's combination of hand-drawn animation with live action clips of the 1950 Film Noir D.O.A,, awakeness with sleep, and past with present creates a surreal quality that emanates throughout the film.

This surprisingly lighthearted exploration of childhood trauma depicts a women falling through space while reflecting on her past mistakes, as well as how she was made to feel about them.

A mouse takes control of a man’s television—and his life. A cartoon with no words, and no frame. Just revenge.

Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.

As the 'slant of light' comes and goes in a Massachusetts studio c. 1850, Emily summons up an English poet from an earlier age. Her playful vision of love and life ends in the unique photograph of Dickinson that survives today.

An animated satire on television violence, set in a world where the skeletal Don Death runs a popular variety show called “Dance of Death”.

One of Australia’s leading landscape artists, William Robinson has twice won the Archibald Prize for his self-portraits. SILLY & SERIOUS presents Robinson at work, playing Debussy, and discussing his work: his love for old Laurel and Hardy movies; how humour and sadness can exist in the same portrait

Death sings to celebrate the God that moves him - and then encounters Something in the darkness.

A bank robber flies in to a tropical town where the only conversation is: ”It's not the heat, it's the humidity”. First the weather wrecks his plans; then it destroys him.

As a man dies, his mind drifts back to the evenings of his childhood.