Initial release 1994 Music director Dave Whitehead | Screenplay Paul Swadel Story by Simon Perkins | |
Directors Paul Swadel, Simon Perkins Cast Jed Brophy, Josephine Davison Similar Poppy, Desperate Remedies, As Dreams Are Made On, The French Doors, The Most Fun You Can Hav | ||
A Little Death is a 16mm short film that was created by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel in 1994. The film was nominated for Best Short Film in the New Zealand Film and TV Awards in 1995. Its concept evolved from an earlier idea called Into The Void, which involve a male character walking in on his lover in bed with another. The interest of the idea centred on the ambiguity of the lover's gender, and by inference the sexual orientation of the observer.
Read a review of the short film featured in the NZ Pavement Magazine (1995). Watch the short film on YouTube.
The script for this film was written as a Beatscript rather than a conventional screenplay. The film has been cited as one of a select number of shorts that heralded The Coming of Age of The New Zealand Short Film (Paul Shannon, 1995).