Australian filmmaker Peter Sant recently shot his debut feature, Maneland,.on the north west coast of Malta over 18 days.
The film is described as .an experiential film about a stasis and slow change..
It follows a crippled king who is living with his two daughters in a bunker on an isolated island following the spread of virus. Following a serious of encounters, the virus seems to return..
Sant wrote the film, which is in the Maltese language, with co-writer Alex Vella Gera. Sant's parents migrated to Australia in the 1950s from Malta — and the director himself lived there for a period during the 2000s..
"I was surprised to discover that the local [film] industry is virtually non-existent, but that Malta has appeared on countless screens all over the world in films like Munich, Troy, Gladiator, By the Sea, etc, but always as a double for elsewhere."
"So to me it.s kind of this eternal elsewhere.
The film is described as .an experiential film about a stasis and slow change..
It follows a crippled king who is living with his two daughters in a bunker on an isolated island following the spread of virus. Following a serious of encounters, the virus seems to return..
Sant wrote the film, which is in the Maltese language, with co-writer Alex Vella Gera. Sant's parents migrated to Australia in the 1950s from Malta — and the director himself lived there for a period during the 2000s..
"I was surprised to discover that the local [film] industry is virtually non-existent, but that Malta has appeared on countless screens all over the world in films like Munich, Troy, Gladiator, By the Sea, etc, but always as a double for elsewhere."
"So to me it.s kind of this eternal elsewhere.
- 2/16/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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