Lone (2008)

Lone is a 17-minute dialogue-free short film by Perth filmmaker Andrew Nowrojee that tells its story in that richest of sci-fi worlds, post an apocalypse.

I decided I wanted to tell a visual story and really explore the atmosphere through high production design, he said

In the wake of global devastation a lone survivor is running out of time. As he desperately searches for survivors will he find hope in a junk pile?

A Film by Andrew Nowrojee,2008.

Local robot lands in Wall-E territory
by HARBANT GILL

WHEN Andrew Nowrojee
was busy making his post-
apocalyptic robot film,
little did he know that film giant
Pixar was coming up with a
lookalike creature.
VCA graduate Nowrojee finished
his 17-minute film Lone in 2007;
Pixar's blockbuster Wall-E hit the
screens in 2008.
The first Nowrojee knew about
Wall-E was when he saw a
promotional picture towards the
end of his six-month project.
"My initial reaction was a little
bit of'oh
no'
but also'wow I really
want to see that'," says the 29-year-
old.
"At first I thought it was a
drawback because people might
think I ripped it
off,
but then I
thought it's good if people make a
connection with Wall-E.
"If mine were a feature, I'd be
more worried. Mine is a little short
film and theirs is big budget, and
amazing. It's how you express the
idea that gives you the signature."
Nowrojee's Lone has landed
among Australia's 100 top short
films for the St Kilda Film Festival.
It tells the story of a man (Radek
Jonak),
in a post-apocalyptic
landscape similar to Wall-E, who
seeks connection much like Wall-E
does.
The man creates a companion,
Shoey, out of scrap.
Nowrojee bravely took his
creation to the Imagined Science
Film Festival in New York just a
few months after Wall-E came out.
Shoey wasn't made to feel like a
shoo-in. Responses flooded in on
the
internet. One said it was a film
showing how Wall-E came about.
Shoey is an animatronic robot
which took three months to build
for the VCA, Melbourne
University and Intelligence
Systems Research at Deakin
University.
Nowrojee wrote and
directed the show, came up with
the original concept for his robot
and also voiced it.
He is working on his debut
feature, and a short film set in 2020.
"I watched Wall-E again just the
other day. I still have a laugh and a
cry," he says.
"My film is more atmospheric,
visual,
and doesn't dot all the Is and
cross the
Ts.
It's darker and
brooding.
"It's nice to be compared to
Wall-E but it's in a league of its
own."

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