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05 AUGUST 2012
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A Game with No Rules: rear projected Kiwi short film melodrama

"A trio of future Kiwi screen stars smoke, smoulder, steal - and worse - in Scott Reynolds' serpentine short noir. Kane (Marton Csokas) and his Zambesi-clad woman on the side (Danielle Cormack) set about ripping off Kane’s rich wife (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) with bloody results. Writer/director Scott Reynolds and longtime partner in crime, cinematographer Simon Raby, serve notice of their talents - and inspirations - with heady lighting, deliberately shonky back projection, and opening titles right out of Hitchcock [Saul Bass inspired]. Muso Greg Johnson supplies the horns."

(NZ On Screen)

Fig.1 Scott Reynolds/Zee Films (1994), "A Game with No Rules" Aotearoa New Zealand, 35mm 16 minutes.

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TAGS

1994 • 35mm • A Game with No Rules • a girl and a gun • Aotearoa New Zealand • Australasia • back projection • cinematic conventions • cinematic language • cliche • Danielle Cormack • design conceit • extradiegetic • film genre • film noir • formal conceit • Grant Major • Greg Johnson • Jennifer Ward-Lealand • Jon Brazier • kiwi short • kiwi short films • kiwi shorts • Marton Csokas • melodrama • Mike Hedges • mise-en-abyme • mise-en-scene • nz short film • pastiche • rear projection • Saul Bass • Scott Reynolds • self-referential • serpentine structure • short film • Simon Raby • The Coming of Age of The New Zealand Short Film • theatrical space • visual conventions • visual style • visual vernacular • Wayne Cook • Zambesi (apparel)

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Simon Perkins
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