Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: No dialog

Genre: Experimental
Running Time: 9min
Year of production: 2023

SYNOPSIS

Created out of the perspective that “I was born in a wasteland of other peoples’ dreams” - aka the paradigm of white supremacist patriarchy. Via re-mythologisation, performance, ritual and the blurring of the medical and other realms within the pluriversal existence, Compass in Hand acknowledges and reclaims the agency and epistemology of the survivor, neurodivergent, & trans-persons within the spiral of time.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Aeaea Studios
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Josie Alexandra ~ Persona’s of Transmutees’ & Circe & Baby Stalagmite
Mattie-Martha Sempert ~ Elder Transmitter-Acupuncturist-Bay Leave Extractor
Mikael Eyayaw ~ Spirit / Ghost
Jarryd Harvey ~ Younger Transmuter-Acupuncturist

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Josie Alexandra
Screenwriter: Josie Alexandra
Producer: Josie Alexandra
Director of Photography: Joli Boardman
Sound: Josie Alexandra
Editing: Josie Alexandra
Sound Editing: Josie Alexandra & Guy Louis Faletolu
Music Composer: Josie Alexandra

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Experimental
Sub-genre: Music Video + Abstract + Poetic
Language: No Dialog
Country of origin: Australia
Year of production: 2023
Total running time: 9min

AWARDS

Multicultural Mental Health Film Festival Melbourne
Australia
October 31, 2023
Australian Premiere
Awarded: Best Cinematography
Lift-Off Global Network - First Time Sessions
United Kingdom
2023 Winner
San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival San Francisco
United States
Semi Finalist
Indi Short Awards Cannes
Semi Finalist

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Multicultural Mental Health Film Festival Melbourne
Lift-Off Global Network - First Time Sessions
Trans Film Festival Stockholm
Hollywood Shorts Fest
Randfilmfest