Official Selection BURST Personal Work: Cultural Impact

PRODUCTION COMPANYTILL DEATH

DIRECTOR(S)MELLE BRANSON

DOPTIM FITZGERALD

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TIM FITZGERALD

EDITOR DENZIL HEEGER

CREATIVE DIRECTOR MELLE BRANSON

MUSIC COMPOSER LOUIS FREYE-HARVEY

INSTAGRAM TAG STARRING DANISA THE SERPENT @SERPENTESSSSS_ DIRECTED BY MELLE BRANSON @_TILLDEATH_ CINEMATOGRAPHER TIM FITZGERALD @TIM.S.FITZGERALD CHOREOGRAPHER @BOBBY_KNOX__ EDIT & COLOUR GRADE @DENZILHEEGER COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER @LOUIS.FREREHARVEY

SHORT SYNOPSIS INSIDE THEIR STREETLAMP-LIT CAR, WE MEET DANISA “THE SERPENT” MARTIS, AN AUSTRALIAN-SOUTH EAST ASIAN DRAG AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST. WE LEARN THAT IN THE BEGINNING, THIS CAR IS WHERE THEY USED TO APPLY THEIR MAKEUP BEFORE GIGS - UNDER A STREETLIGHT IN A DESERTED CARPARK, FOR DOING THIS IN THEIR FAMILY HOME WAS NEVER AN OPTION.

AS DANISA EMERGES FROM THEIR CAR, THEY TRANSFORM INTO A GOLDEN, SHIMMERING ENTITY. CHANNELLING THEIR INTERNAL STRUGGLES THROUGH EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT, WE WATCH AS THEY’RE LIBERATED FROM FEARS OF FAMILIAL PERCEPTION, CHANGE AND CONSEQUENCE; THE CAR FROM WHICH THEY ONCE HID IS NOW THEIR STAGE, WHERE THEY METAMORPHOSISE AND ASSUME THEIR FINAL FORM AS A BURSTING LIGHT, A STAR.

A JOURNEY OF FREEDOM THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF MOVEMENT, BURST IS A SHORT MOVEMENT FILM DIRECTED BY MELLE BRANSON IN COLLABORATION WITH CINEMATOGRAPHER TIM FITZGERALD, EDITOR DENZIL HEEGER AND COMPOSER LOUIS FREYE-HARVEY, CHOREOGRAPHED BY BOBBY KNOX AND COMMISSIONED BY THE MINDEROO FOUNDATION ARTIST FUND.