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Delf

Short Film (Full Length) – 1997

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Anyone

Two tadpole-like creatures with enormous eyes chase each other around a womb-like tunnel, to a driving techno soundtrack by Pitch Black. The creatures collide and suddenly find themselves plunged into a different reality where a single wrong move could mean they exist in only two dimensions. The creatures must work together to restore the third dimension and spare themselves a flattened fate. After completing this mind-bending mini-rollercoaster ride, creator James Cunningham and his producing partner Paul Swadel worked together on bank robbery tale Infection, which scored multiple awards. 

[James] Cunningham's witty computer-generated film illustrates the consequences that unfold when the digital meets hard reality . . . Cunningham's video takes an interesting turn when one of the creatures knocks over the y-axis, which then flattens the other organism. The two 'DELF's (Digitally Engineered Life Forms) have to make sense of their environment in order to escape. The creatures come into conflict with the traditional laws of linear perspective on a mesh battlefield of graphs and axes and must plot their exit from the Cartesian infrastructure.    
– The Queensland Art Gallery describes this film

Key Cast & Crew

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James Cunningham

Director, Writer, Animator

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Paul Swadel

Producer

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Dick Reade

Audio Post-Production

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Mike Hodgson

Composer

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Dave Whitehead

Sound Mix, Sound Design

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Paddy Free

Composer

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Produced by

Supercollider

Source

Supercollider

Acknowledgements

Funded by the Short Film Fund of the NZ Film Commission

Music

Music by Pitch Black