Weirdo

Australia, 2004

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A short created by a student for the 2004 ACMI Diegesis secondary school media festival.
The story of a ‘weirdo’ guy, who’s best friend is a bird. They shop together and and live in harmony, until the ‘weirdo’ guy’s evil twin brother steals the bird. ‘Weirdo’ guy goes in pursuit of his evil twin brother up a mountain in a desperate attempt to save his best friend. A struggle ensues and, whilst ‘Weirdo’ manages to save his best friend, alas, his evil twin brother falls to his death off the mountain edge.

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Credits

creator

Blair Thompson

Duration

00:03:05:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
2004

Appears in

Group of items

Diegesis Festival 2004. Program 4

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1006732

Language

English

Audience classification

Exempt

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

DVD [PAL]; Master

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

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