DETOUR on the Wheelie of Life

Three redneck youths go for a joyride in their new car, seeking their first road-kill. Things go astray when, after hitting a wallaby, they crash. The driver finds himself reincarnated as the orphaned joey in the deceased wallaby's pouch, and a bizarre circle of life commences.

Winner of the AFI "Reinventing the Reel" competition 2001.

Australian animation by Off Planet Films.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• reincarnation
• wallaby
• roadkill
• redneck
• joey
• car
• crash
• wombat
• Tasmanian
• Australian
• cardboard
• animation
• puppetry
• Tassie
• Aussie
• paper
• puppets
• raise
• AFI
• winner
• short
• film
• Australia
• Tasmania
• accident
• bogans
• petrolheads
• marsupial
• horror

[j8lex]

do you use MIDI?

[offplanetfilms]

Most of my early stuff was midi based (certainly in this film), but more recently I've started being a little more fluid and mixing in some live playing.

[j8lex]

@offplanetfilms Fluid?

[offplanetfilms]

@j8lex ...I use an 80's vintage Roland W-30 (ancient)

[j8lex]

@offplanetfilms I hope the new roland stuff sounded like this.

[offplanetfilms]

@j8lex ...I play a little on the side.... I'm more of an all-rounder filmmaker that composes his own soundtracks.

[j8lex]

@offplanetfilms Dud you are a musician.

[j8lex]

@offplanetfilms Dud the music is gr8 too

[edgewayround]

A good look at Karma and reencarnation. Although I did find one discrepency!

In the scene at 2:44 the formulae clearly states the secret formulae to Australias magic potion of bravery and yobboishness that wonderfull Australian secret that is VB. Does ASIO know that you are giving away Australian secret intelligence secrets? Hmmmmmmm.

I think it's road kill for you mate!

[Yownanymous]

I like the philosophy of some of these.