The web page of Scot McPhie
Back in 2017 I shot my feature film Honeysuckle Way on a Canon 600D with a 1.33x anamorphic lense (the Panasonic AG-LA7200G, which was made for the DVX-100). I hadn’t used it for almost a decade and so was interested to get it out and have a new go with it.
Continue reading “Filming anamorphic stills and video on a Canon 600D (T3i)”In the early 2000’s some ancient pottery and canoe hulls were found in the Gulf Provence of Papua New Guinea, near the villages of Epemeavo and Kea Kea. No one knew where they came from or what the story behind them was.
An archaeological team from Monash University and the University of Southern Queensland travelled to the site to investigate. This film tells that story, and the bigger story of people trying to find their past and what has been lost to them.
Continue reading “Hiri Moale”
Film making is something I just intrinsically love doing. However it’s always been a balance between the cost and resources available – and more important commitments like family.
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David Miller is an idealist in the colonial frontier of highland New Guinea in 1938. Having given away law to work as an anthropologist and gain a greater insight into the traditional beliefs of the natives he finds himself once again drawn back into law when he reluctantly agrees to represent T’Laupo, a highlander charged with murder, after a traditional pay back killing.
As David investigates the case and re-establishes an old friendship with another highlander, Jainantu, he finds that all is not as it seems – and the greatest lessons are the ones we learn ourselves.
An intelligent drama that studies the psychology of religion and aetheism, and the colonial treatment of New Guinea
Continue reading “In My Image”