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screen.
Corner Piece Pictures started in 2013 with a short film written, directed and carried by the same person. An independent Melbourne company making short and long-form drama — “reflecting, not deflecting, the times in which we live.”
Below: the films made under it, and the screen roles taken elsewhere.
Half Way
A guy from Melbourne and a girl from Sydney reconnect in the middle of both cities. Written, directed and starred in — the first film Corner Piece Pictures produced, and the first time the writing, the directing and the performing all sat with one person.
Two characters — one from Melbourne, one from Sydney — function less as individuals than as living representations of their cities, down to the cars they drive. They meet once and share an immediate, powerful connection. The story jumps forward eight years: both are now in separate committed relationships, yet they find their way back to each other, meeting halfway between the two cities.
ClicK
A punk rock drummer becomes a father — and runs headlong into conformity. Written and directed, and the film that pulled the company toward longer, more personal work.
A surreal short centred on a man rehearsing to a metronome — an act of trying to conform to the rhythm of “normal life.” As he performs, fragments of childhood trauma surface: an abusive father, a mother who endured violence. The metronome becomes the discipline he is forcing on himself in the present, and the film resolves in the moment he learns he is about to become a father himself, and his mother tells him to let go.
Features, shorts, and one that became a book.
2019 Blood VesselFeature · Jimmy Bigelow · dir. Justin Dix +
Australian WWII horror shot in Melbourne. Premiered as closing night film at FilmQuest 2019, where it was nominated for eleven awards.
IMDb — Jimmy Bigelow →
2013 VesselFeature · Lead · dir. Adam Ciancio +
Preparation included a winter night walking the Melbourne streets in character. The film went on to draw international attention.
Feature Crime & PunishmentFeature · Leading role +
A further feature alongside the Corner Piece slate.
Short The King is DeadShort · Actor +
A road-movie short from writer-director Curtis Hill, opposite John Jarratt and Elise Jansen — an Elvis impersonator working the last of the highway bars.
Short LimerenceShort · Actor +
Adam Ciancio’s short for Klopek Pictures — a laundromat, two people, and the involuntary state of being consumed by someone. Co-written and co-produced with Ciancio and Chloe Boreham.
Written to act in, and set to shoot in Melbourne in mid-2020 until the pandemic shut production down. It became a four-part graphic novel instead — and the film is still on the slate.
Read DOORMAN →A football drama about Nate Dunn Jr — a fallen sports icon who has vanished from public life and resurfaces on a busy Melbourne tram.
Corner Piece Pictures
An independent Melbourne production company specialising in short and long-form drama — original, compelling, profoundly human stories. Producing partner: Wendy Benge, Bullet Entertainment, Los Angeles.
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