Community arts project culminates in food fight
Our Art Day West program launches its comedy film
A dash of Oscars-style glamour came to Yarraville on 7 April for the premiere of Dead Carrots Don’t Talk¸ the comedy film produced by Art Day West, one of our programs for people with disabilities. Around 170 people waited outside the Sun Theatre to cheer as the film’s stars stepped out of a pink Cadillac and onto the red carpet.
Two years in the making, Dead Carrots Don’t Talk is a slapstick silent comedy that is set at a wedding reception. Filmed mostly in black and white, it also features stop motion animation.
Introduced by local comedian Denise Scott, a packed audience responded enthusiastically to the project’s community cultural development framework – and the use of cream in the film’s food-fight finale. Both funding stakeholders and friends of the program praised the film’s collaborative process – and its depiction of wedding reception debauchery.
The Art Day West program is based at South Kingsville Community Centre in Spotswood. Collaborating with professional artists, the program’s participants were involved in many aspects of making the film, including script development, performing, developing artwork for the animated sequences and various technical tasks such as animating models and setting up equipment.
Following its successful launch, the film is being submitted to national and international film festivals. |
