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Valley of the Stereos is a comic face-off that starts tinny, but gleefully escalates to bass heavy, as a not-so-zen hippy (Danny Mulheron) gets caught up in a vale-blasting battle with the noisy bogan next door (Murray Keane). Made by many key Peter Jackson collaborators, the near-wordless pump up the volume tale was directed by George Port, shortly before he became founding member of Jackson's famed effects-house Weta Digital. Ironically Weta's computer-generated miracles would help render the stop motion imagery seen in the finale largely a thing of the past.
Valley of the Stereos was a fun little project. Produced by Jim Booth and Peter Jackson, it was shot with old Technovision anamorphic 35mm cameras and lenses that were ...
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Television, 1994 (Excerpts)
A doco on the early days of Weta, featuring George Port
Television, 2001 (Full Length Episode)
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1993 Imagfic (Madrid)
Best Short Film
Festivals include:
2002 Locarno (NZ showcase), 1993 Melbourne, 1993 Montreal, 1993 Hof, 1993 Oporto, 1993 Sydney, 1993 Semana Fantasia (Spain), 1993 Filmothek of Youth (Germany)
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Bevan Shortridge
Posted at 02.29PM - 07.12.2012
I'm glad to see "Valley of the Stereos" up here. I don't think I've seen this since it was in the cinemas - showing before "Braindead" I think?