Simon O’Carrigan’s animated adaptation of my short story Be Famous and Die will be screening in the ‘Australian Panorama’ at the Melbourne International Animation Festival.
I’m endlessly pleased with Simon’s take on the story, originally commissioned for the Melbourne, and Other Myths exhibition. He yanked out the moments he found most interesting from the monologue and transformed them into smoky, stream-of-consciousness imagery. It looks like dreams feel.
(Plus there’s a handdrawn, copyright-smashing Batman cameo. How could I resist?)
Be Famous And Die
Simon O’Carrigan
2008, 4’45
A Melburnian’s monologue on the subjectivity and transience of fame and stone statues.
The Australian Panorama screens at 4pm, Saturday 27 June, at the Australia Centre for the Moving Image.
And you can see some of Simon’s other stuff here.
