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Performance group The Front Lawn (Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair) stretch all of their prolific talents in this kooky Truly, Madly, Deeply style short. An eerie body-shifting whistled tune precedes Ben (McGlashan) finding his partner Linda (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) dead in bed. Then things get stranger: Linda’s ghost catches up with an old lover Victor (Sinclair) and faces a life-changing dilemma, while her body — awol with a tennis player on Tamaki Drive — has other plans. The surreal romance was made for TVNZ; it won best short at the 1990 NZ Screen Awards.

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 Don McGlashan
 Harry Sinclair
 Grant Campbell

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 Earl B

Earl B

Brilliant stuff. Great to find this on here.

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  • The Front Lawn

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Quotes

I once had this girlfriend and I liked to whistle in her ear. ‘Please don’t do that,’ she’d say. ‘It makes me feel like I’m going to leave my body’. I couldn’t understand her reaction. It was such a quiet whistle ...  
I’ve come to see you because I need some advice. You see Linda ... has left her body! 

Awards

1990 NZ Screen Awards
Best Short Film