A Little Death: A Modern Day Fairytale
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A Little Death is a 16mm short film made by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel
in 1994. The project evolved from an earlier idea called Into The Void, involving a male character walking in on his lover in bed with another. The interest of the idea centred on the ambiguity of the lover's gender, and by inference the sexual orientation of the observer.
Read a review of the short film featured on the NZ Pavement Magazine (1995). Watch the short film on YouTube.
The script for this film was written as a Beatscript rather than a conventional screenplay. The film has been cited as one of a select number of shorts that heralded The Coming of Age of The New Zealand Short Film.
Paul Swadel
]Paul Swadel is a New Zealand film director and producer.He has directed and produced many successful short films which have screened in competition at Cannes, Venice, New York and Sundance film festivals to name but a few. Saatchi & Saatchi spotted his talent early in the commercials world for...
in 1994. The project evolved from an earlier idea called Into The Void, involving a male character walking in on his lover in bed with another. The interest of the idea centred on the ambiguity of the lover's gender, and by inference the sexual orientation of the observer.
Read a review of the short film featured on the NZ Pavement Magazine (1995). Watch the short film on YouTube.
The script for this film was written as a Beatscript rather than a conventional screenplay. The film has been cited as one of a select number of shorts that heralded The Coming of Age of The New Zealand Short Film.