Kyle Faulkner
Directing
Biography
Kyle Faulkner is a New Zealand-born writer, director and producer known for Hitokara (2018), Street (2022) and Spectre (2022). He became dependent on the fume of cinema from the age of 7 and has suffered through the phases of awe-struck Kubrickian, movie-nerd, unhealthy obsessive, annoying scholar, critic & theorist, and has now reached the restive over-saturated state of what he coins cinema dementia. He made his first feature film at the age of 15 and has since made numerous films with many different styles and approaches. He has a Certificate III & IV in Film and has studied directing with NIDA and under John Dommett. He has worked in mental health, studied natural medicine, romanticism, and Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to post-structuralism. His primary affinities are mental and spiritual health, nature, Spinozism, difference ethics, and 80s power ballads.
Known For
An obsessive young man cast in the role of a killer in an upcoming true crime production befriends a surviving family member of the real-life events.
Street
After a year of attempting to handwrite a personal letter to Luce Irigaray before she passes, Kyle Faulkner decided to turn it into a film instead.
Letter to Irigaray
A poem about grief and the artificial, a copy of a copy of a copy, a therapeutic slow cinema meditation on solitude and the psychoanalytic and healing aspects of karaoke and all it implies, its emotional mechanics, modern art as endless duplication, the Real within the “false”. A love letter to Japan, channelling Marker and Benning into a spiritual reimagining of a Totoro hunt, a Shinto funeral rite for ghosts caught between worlds, and ideally, an antidote to Matsumoto's Atman. Featuring the Steamroom compositions of Jim O’Rourke.
Hitokara ヒトカラ
A portrait of a planet.
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Leftover scenes from Hitokara strung together as inconsequential ephemera
Wabi Sabi
At a temple at the far ends of the earth, a committee of dogs maintain guardianship over an ancient force.
Sangha
A summoning, cleansing and releasing ritual for the many ghosts of lutruwita.
Spectre
Landscape blends with narrative through a journey of the human heart as a woman healing from trauma.