CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
As a filmmaker, Bill Mousoulis has
been influenced in equal measure by the French nouvelle vague
and the Italian neo-realists. Many of his short films are snappy
and colourful hybrids of various non-narrative forms (essay, diary,
documentary, music clip). His longer narrative films have a different
feel, being very formal, minimal, moody. He is a realist by trade,
and, being fascinated by the human soul, his key subjects are
love and murder.
See Innersense,
Bill Mousoulis' website, for much more on his work.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Family
Life (1982,
3 mins, Super 8)
Doubt (1982, 8 mins, Super 8)
In
a Lonely Place (1982, 4 mins, Super 8)
Random
(1983, 3 mins, Super 8)
Random
Too (1983, 3 mins, Super 8)
Mary-Go-Round
(1983, 3 mins, Super 8)
'82
Into '83 (1983, 7 mins, Super 8)
Home
Movie (1983, 3 mins, Super 8)
Double
Play (1983, 3 mins, Super 8)
Reflections
(1983, 3 mins, Super 8)
Mystery
(1983, 24 mins, Super 8)
Ascension:
The Story of Bill (1983, 14 mins, Super 8)
Soul-Twister
(1983, 11 mins, Super 8)
Christine
and Linda Go Skating (1983, 16 mins, Super 8)
Dreams
Never End (1983, 9 mins, Super 8)
J.C.:
The Jewellery-Case (1984, 10 mins, Super 8)
Aspire
to Infinity (1984, 17 mins, Super 8)
Pretty
Naive (1984, 13 mins, Super 8)
Streets
(1985, 5 mins, Super 8)
Drive
(1985, 9 mins, Super 8)
Love
Letter (1985, 6 mins, Super 8)
Back
to Nature (1985, 13 mins, Super 8)
Everyday
(1985, 5 mins, Super 8)
Body
Talk (1986, 4 mins, Super 8)
Glass
Darkly (1986, 7 mins, Super 8)
Physical
World (1986, 10 mins, Super 8)
Still
(1986, 7 mins, Super 8)
Fun
Girl (1986, 4 mins, Super 8)
The
Green Door (1986, 5 mins, Super 8)
The
End of the World (1987, 10 mins, Super 8)
Faith
(1987, 27 mins, Super 8)
A
Question of Faith (1987, 9 mins, Super 8)
Glorious
Day (1987, 12 mins, 16mm)
Embrace
(1988, 8 mins, Super 8)
Knowing
Me, Knowing You (1988, 6 mins, Super 8)
After
School (1988, 20 mins, 16mm)
Waiting
in the Wings (1988, 5 mins, Super 8)
Out
(1988, 30 seconds, Super 8)
We're
Chained (1989, 4 mins, Super 8)
Melbourne
'89 (1989, 13 mins, Super 8)
Between
Us (1989, 37 mins, 16mm)
Precious
(1989, 10 mins, Super 8)
Crazy
Motherfucker (1989, 3 mins, Super 8)
Change
(1989, 1 min, Super 8)
Honey
(1989, 7 mins, Super 8)
How
Soon is Now? (1990, 3 mins, Super 8)
Richmond
Girl (1990, 6 mins, Super 8)
sex/dialogue/empathy:
38 (1990, 7 mins, Super 8)
Construction
Group (1990, 7 mins, Super 8)
Love
(1991, 3 mins, Super 8)
Michelangelo's
Dream (1991, 5 mins, Super 8)
Untitled
(1992, 4 mins, Super 8)
Open
City (1993, 80 mins, Super 8)
Ladykiller
(1994, 80 mins, Super 8)
Document
45 (1994, 10 mins, Super 8)
Vale
(1994, 3 mins, Super 8)
Rich
Woods '90-'95 (1995, 7 mins, Super 8)
Abbot's
Ford '95 (1995, 6 mins, Super 8)
Fit
Waters '95-? (1995, 3 mins, Super 8)
Cinema
1895-1995 (1995, 3 mins, Super 8)
The
Shadows (1996, 5 mins, Super 8)
Makes
Me Stronger (1996, 8 mins, Super 8)
When
I Grow Up (1996, 34 mins, Super 8)
Green
(1996, 3 mins, Super 8)
How
To Use Your Camera (1996, 7 mins, Super 8)
White
(1996, 2 mins, Super 8)
My
Blessings (1997, 78 mins, 16mm)
The Wild
Bunch (1997, 2 mins, Super 8)
Thirteen
(1998, 3 mins, Super 8)
Holy
Land (1998, 3 mins, Super 8)
Winter
(1998, 8 mins, Super 8)
Underground
Sky (1998, 16 mins, Super 8)
Desire
(1999, 77 mins, 16mm)
Cold
Heart, Warm Mind (1999, 4 mins, Super 8)
Focus
at Infinity (1999, 2 mins, Super 8)
The Circle
Turns (2000, 7 mins, Super 8)
Lovesick
(2002, 70 mins, Super-16)
Needles
and Pins (2002, 3 mins, video)
When
I Grow Up ('02) (2002, 40 mins, Super 8)
The
Color of Murder (2002, 4 mins, Super 8)
Passage
(2003, 16 mins, video)
Don't
Move (2003, 6 mins, video)
High
(2003, 3 mins, Super 8)
New Horizons
(2003, 9 mins, video)
A Sufi
Valentine (2004, 34 mins, video)
Canary
(2004, 2 mins, video)
Spring
Rhapsody (2004, 84 mins, video)
Blue Notes
(2006, 93 mins, video)
Nocturnal
Submissions (2006, 6 mins, video)
Kosta
(2006, 17 mins, video)
A Nocturne
(2007, 70 mins, video)
1:20 p.m.
(2007, 8 mins, video)
Flash
(2007, 16 mins, video)
I'm Gonna
Leave You (2008, 3 mins, video)
SCREENINGS:
Over 450,
including at:
Melbourne International Film Festival (1986, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91,
96, 97)
Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2001, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07)
Brisbane International Film Festival (2001)
Sydney Film Festival (1990)
St.Kilda Film Festival (1988, 89, 90, 96, 04)
Melbourne Super-8 Film Festival (1986-99)
Sydney Super-8 Film Festival (1984-87)
Fringe Film and Video Festival (1984-90, 97, 02)
Frames Film and Video Festival (1990, 94)
Melbourne
Cinematheque (1988)
Nova
Dose, Cinema Nova (2001)
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2004)
La
Mama Theatre (2004)
SBS-TV "Eat Carpet" (1989)
Also: various
screenings overseas, in U.S.A., U.K., Phillipines, Argentina,
Japan, France, etc.
AWARDS:
After
School
Certificate of Merit, St.Kilda Film Festival, 1989
Between
Us
4th Best Film, St.Kilda Film Festival, 1990
Best Fiction Film nomination Dendy Awards, 1990
Lovesick
Best Innovation in Undeground Cinema, Melbourne Underground Film
Festival, 2003
Best Cinematography, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2003
Spring
Rhapsody
Special Jury Prize, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2005
Best Sound, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2005
Blue Notes
Special Jury Prize, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2006
Best Cinematography, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2006
Best Supporting Male Actor (Adam Royall), Melbourne Underground
Film Festival, 2006
A Nocturne
Best Film, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2007
Best Actress (Vanessa de Largie), Melbourne Underground Film Festival,
2007
Best Editing (Bill Mousoulis), Melbourne Underground Film Festival,
2007
SCRIPTS written, but unproduced so far:
all feature-length,
and 1st Draft, unless otherwise noted
29
(aka Love Affairs) (1990-92) (3 drafts)
Everybody (1991, part of feature Private Lives)
(30 mins) (2 drafts)
The Magician (1991)
Saint (1992)
Making a Killing (aka Mercy for the Devil) (1993)
(2 drafts)
The Mark of Love (1994)
Bloody Lovely (1995)
The Birth of the World (1995)
So Real (1996)
Green Again (1996)
Voyage to Greece (1998) (2 drafts)
diary.com (1999, for SBS' "Hybrid Life") (30 mins) (2 drafts)
Experience (2001)
Star Guitar (2002)
Run For Your Life (2002) (30 mins)
A Couple of Rules (2003)
Tender Passage (2004)
(some of these scripts financed by AFC and SBS)
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"5th
Sydney Super-8 Film Festival" by Andrew Preston, Filmnews,
Feb 1985.
"In
Memoriam Small Movies: A Homage to Bill Mousoulis" by Adrian
Martin, Cantrills
Filmnotes, Autumn 1986.
"Love
Letter and Back to Nature" by Nadine Myatt, Filmviews
127, Autumn 1986.
"Physical
World" by Nadine Myatt, Filmviews 129,
Spring 1986.
"Faith"
by Darron Davies, Filmviews 133, Spring 1987.
"Super-8
Strategies" by Anne-Marie Crawford and Vikki Riley, Cinema
Papers, Nov 1987.
"Faith"
by Bill Mousoulis, Cantrills Filmnotes, Spring 1987.
"Bill
Mousoulis: Profile" by Rolando Caputo, Case Studies in
Independent Production, 1988.
"Between
Us" by Raffi Ghazarian, Super Eight, February
1990.
"Blown
Up" by Michael Hutak, Filmnews, March 1990.
"The
Other Side" by Bill Mousoulis, Cantrills Filmnotes, Autumn
1990.
"From
Doubt to Faith to ...?" by Bill Mousoulis, Super Eight,
Nov 1992.
"Open
City = Open Cinema" by Michael Filippidis, Filmnews,
Sep 1993.
"Not
Cheap, Just No Budget" by Ben Holgate, Sydney Morning Herald,
Sep 29, 1993.
"Open
City? Closed Circle" by Steven Ball, Super Eight, Nov 1993.
"Recent
Super-8 Theatrical Features" by Scott Murray, Australian Film
78-94, 1995.
"I
dream of avant-garde narrative ..." by Bill Mousoulis,
unpublished, April 1996.
"Reel
Life" by Kathie Kamboropoulos, Neos Kosmos, Aug 12, 1996.
"Doing
it his way" by Vicky Tsaconas, Neos Kosmos, July 11,
1997.
"A Tale
of Two Directors" by Adam Zwar, Herald Sun, July 27, 1997.
"Once
Upon a Time in the Fest ..." by Adrian Martin, The Age,
July 31, 1997.
"Bill's
desire" by Vicki Aristidopoulos, Neos Kosmos, November
27, 2000.
"Q &
A with director Bill Mousoulis" by Maria Anastasopoulos,
Neos Kosmos, May 14, 2001.
"Five
Questions for Melbourne Movie Maverick Bill Mousoulis", Beat,
May 16, 2001.
"Working
in the Realm of the Senses" by Philippa Hawker, The Age,
May 16, 2001.
"Homage
(No.2) to Bill Mousoulis" by Adrian Martin, Senses of
Cinema, Issue 14, June 2001.
"A
Moral Position" by Bill Mousoulis, Metro, No.
129/130, Spring 2001.
"Lovesick:
Bill Mousoulis and the 'Outside World'" by Maximilian
Le Cain, Metro, No.135, Autumn 2003.
A Sufi
Valentine - review, by Tom Ryan, The Sunday Age, June
13, 2004.
A Sufi
Valentine - review, by Adrian Martin, The Age, June
14, 2004.
"Subtle
Strokes from the underground" by Rolando Caputo, RealTime,
Issue 64, Dec 2004 - Jan 2005.
Seeing
in the Night: A Nocturne, by Fiona A Villella, Senses of
Cinema, Issue 46, Feb 2008.
©
Bill Mousoulis, May 2008.
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