Sound Perspective – Détails, épisodes et analyse

The Big Dog is playing at a cinema near you! Tickets available here https://www.2cpictures.com/films/thebigdog

Dane McCusker is a director in Sydney, whose debut feature The Big Dog is about to start its theatrical release after sold-out sessions at Sydney Film Festival.

The Big Dog is a dramedy about a married stockbroker with a penchant for the esoteric fetish "findom" - financial domination. When his secret dominatrix cleans out all of his bank accounts, he has one day to save his life from ruin.

It's a hilarious, heart-wrenching and nuanced interrogation of class, gender and toxic masculinity. I couldn't recommend it highly enough.

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Garth Davis is a director from Melbourne whose credits include the 6-time Oscar nominated Lion (2016), Mary Magdalene (2018), episodes of Jane Campion's show Top Of The Lake, and most recently Foe (2023).

This episode we chatted about his beginnings in directing commercials, his first documentary feature in 2000 (one of Greig Fraser's first projects as DOP), his long-standing collaboration with previous Sound Perspective guest Robert Mackenzie, and his newest film, Foe: a heady blend of sci-fi and drama starring Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan in a dystopian future Earth.

Foe is currently in cinemas in Australia, and will soon be streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Ben Lawrence is an Australian director whose credits include Hearts and Bones, Ghosthunter, and most recently Ithaka, a feature documentary following John Shipton, Jullian Assanges father, in his fight for Julian’s freedom. It’s premiering at Sydney Film Festival this Sunday 7th November, with music by Brian Eno.

In my first face-to-face podcast interview in over 18 months, me and Ben chatted about how he pitted Hugo Weaving against first-time actors in Hearts and Bones, how he unwillingly became a character in his documentary Ghosthunter and how he collaborated with Brian Eno to find the right music for Ithaka.

Get tickets for Ithaka at Sydney Film Festival here: https://www.sff.org.au/program/browse/ithaka

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Eddie Martin is an Australian documentary director who shot to cult fame with his visceral 2005 documentary, Jisoe, about a Melbourne graffiti artist; some of his films since have included All This Mayhem, Have You Seen The Listers? and The Kids. The Kids revisits the cast of Larry Clarks cult 1995 film Kids, and is playing at Sydney Film Festival this year.

In this Zoom chat me and Eddie discussed his background in the Melbourne skate scene and how he wanted to explore the alternative narrative behind Kids.

Get tickets for The Kids at Sydney Film Festival here: https://www.sff.org.au/program/browse/the-kids

Watch Jisoe here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp8ZNqaG-dE&t=2490s&ab_channel=EddieMartin

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David France is a documentary filmmaker, writer and journalist in New York, whose directing credits include Oscar-Nominated How To Survive a Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, and last year's Welcome to Chechnya, the horrific story of the genocide of queer people in the Russian state of Chechnya.

In this Skype interview we discussed his transition from journalism to film, how he ensured the anonymity of his subjects through ground-breaking VFX and ADR, and his working relationship with legendary mixer Lora Hirschberg, who has also worked on films such as The Dark Knight and Inception.

Find out where you can watch Welcome To Chechnya here https://www.welcometochechnya.com/seefilm

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Kate Simko is a composer in London who's worked across a wide variety of docos and fiction films as well as having had a long career as an EDM DJ. Her most recent work is on the documentary Underplayed, which explores the issue of the lack of female-identifying DJs and the history of women in electronic music.

We chatted about the influence of her upbringing in the Chicago music scene, her career as a DJ, finding a sound palette that sat between the music styles of Underplayed's participants, and why there are so few women composers.

Check her music at https://open.spotify.com/artist/2KXLSIzI7CY7AJg5ARUOSb?si=68tiq752Qb27zqtpJmt_XA

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Aunty Donna are a 6-piece comedy group from Melbourne, Australia, who have worked across video, stage performance, and music. They are very, very, very funny people. In this episode I chatted to two of the members; filmmaker Max Miller and composer/sound designer Tom Armstrong, about their new Netflix original series, Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun. We talked about how Tom likes to get involved from the sketch writing phase, how Max converts live sketches to something cinematic, their work outside of Aunty Donna, and the alternate universe in which they might have made a Quibi series. Watch Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun now on Netflix, or follow their socials: Instagram: @theauntydonnagallery Twitter: @auntydonnaboys Facebook and Youtube: Aunty Donna Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefaber Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

Glendyn Ivin is an Australian director of features such as Last Ride and Penguin Bloom, which just premiered at TIFF, as well as amazing TV shows such as The Cry, The Beautiful Lie, and Puberty Blues. I managed to have a Skype interview with him while he was stuck in a two week quarantine in a hotel in Sydney, and we had a really amazing chat about a massive range of topics; his background in documentary, passion for music, love of shooting with small crews and editing of bird sounds in Penguin Bloom. Watch his Palme D'or winning short here https://vimeo.com/8833777 Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefabersound Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

In this episode I chat with Natalie Erika James and Robert Mackenzie, the director and sound designer of the hit Australian horror film Relic. In this Skype interview, we talked about the collaborative process of having a sound team working in 3 different cities, creating an extensive sample library before the edit, and how they created a sense of organic decay through the soundtrack. Relic is currently available in Australia on Stan and overseas on rental platforms. Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefabersound Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com

Ron Bartlett is a re-recording mixer working at the Formosa Group in LA, with over 170 credits to his name, including Bladerunner 2049, Reservoir Dogs, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Us, and the upcoming Dune film by Denis Villeneuve. In this Skype interview we chatted about his intro to sound through drumming, the experience of working on both Bladerunner films, and his memories of Quentin Tarantino as a young up-and-comer in the indie LA scene. Follow me on Facebook at Sound Perspective Twitter @soundperspect Instagram @alfiefabersound Got feedback? Email me contact@soundperspectivepodcast.com