F I S H
Moira Brady Averill
Synopsis
'Made by writer and comedian Moira Brady Averill, F I S H sees the filmmaker barefoot, painted in blue and wearing the oversized head of a cardboard fish. Marked by stigma and sorrow, the figure she embodies is seen roaming city streets, endeavouring to carry out everyday tasks - order a coffee, eat an ice-cream, play basketball - but in every instance becoming an object of ridicule, isolated and excluded for reasons beyond our understanding. A portrait of solitude and despair as much as it is of rage and defiance that acts as a metaphor for social alienation, this parody of the suffering human foibles can give rise to was conceived of and shot in one day on grainy video, heightened by a score of mellifluous strings crashing with death metal and delivered with black humour amid wilfully murky pathos.'
(Text by Alice Butler, Nov 28th 2016)
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Title
F I S H
Year
2010
Form
Short
Key phrases
portrait, dark comedy, social isolation, stigmatization, melancholy, insubordination
Language
English (eng) (spoken)
Duration
00:04:00
Original formats
to be confirmed
Aspect ratio
to be confirmed
Colour
Mixture
Sound
Yes