Nullarbor
A brash young punk and a laid-back old digger travel across the Nullarbor in an animated road movie to nowhere. In this vast and barren landscape, sometimes all you’re left with is each other.
Directed by: Alister (Colin) Lockhart, Patrick Sarell
Country: Australia
Year of production: 2010
Running time: 10m15s
Production: THE LAMPSHADE COLLECTIVE, Katrina MATHERS, Merrin JENSEN
Artistic direction Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell
Script Patrick Sarell, Alister Lockhart
Graphics Daryl Munton
Storyboard Alister Lockhart
Sets Dudley Birch
Animation Jasper Parker Trenfield, Patrick Sarell, Adrian Moyes, Tara Soerjadhi
Compositing Daryl Munton, Julia Shub
Music Gregory Shaw, Damian Whitty
Sound Matt Bauer
Editing Paul Damien Williams
Directors
Patrick Sarell – Writer / Producer / Co-Director / Animation Director
One of the founding partners of The Lampshade Collective, Patrick Sarell has worked as an animation producer, rigger and animator across a variety of projects including television commercials, computer games and feature film. He has worked for companies such as Illoura, Animal Logic and Rising Sun Pictures. “Nullarbor” is his first film as writer, producer, animation director and co-director.
Alister Lockhart – Director / Co-Writer
Alister Lockhart began his career as a commercial illustrator for Random House, Intrepid Trading Cards and Walt Disney Australia.
In his ten years in the games industry Alister has worked on 16 released games titles, and has written and directed animations for games such as SSG’s ‘Warlords: Battlecry’ I & II, and Tantalus Media’s ‘Payload’, ‘Top Gear: Downforce’ and Infinite Interactive’s ‘Puzzle Quest 2′. “Nullarbor” is Alister’s first short film as director and co-writer.
The Lampshade Collective – Production Company
Established in late 2007 by Patrick Sarell, Daryl Munton and Katrina Mathers and later joined by Merrin Jensen, The Lampshade Collective was set up to create high quality animated original content for the Australian and International market.
“Nullarbor” is the first completed original project to be released by the company. It was funded through Film Victoria’s “Propeller Shorts” program with additional post production funding by Screen Australia.
