Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

A Square's Safari

Janet Merewether 1992 Australia color 14min English DCP
It's an experimental comedy animation.Leaving paper pushing behind, Roy Wright picks up his spear flourishes it, hurling himself into the New Age. An experimental and vibrant color animation which uses a combination of photographs, slides and live action to map a man's inner transformation from insurance assessor to a spear throwing new age warrior.

Director

Janet Merewether

Janet Merewether is a writer/director and curation, and being a designer of motion graphics and film titles sequences for feature film, documentary , and broadcast. Her short film and videos, including Cheap Blonde and Contemporary Case Studies, have been screened internationally in the 2001 New York Film Festival, and her design work as has featured in award winning feature films such as Short Before the Movie screened at the New Director/New Films festival at MoMA and Lincoln Center, New York in 2003. Retrospectives of her work have been screened at the Arsenal Cinema Berlin, 2002, Boston Cinematheque, 2002, and the Seoul Women's Film Festival Korea, 2003.