Screened as part of NZIFF 2012

We Feel Fine 2012

Directed by Jeremy Dumble, Adam Luxton

Jeremy Dumble and Adam Luxton’s gonzo art movie tracks random sets of Auckland characters linked by a teenage boy’s bizarre video project. An eye-popping cameo from Florian Habicht exemplifies its cunning and rude energy.

93 minutes HDCAM

Directors, Screenplay

Producers

Gayle Hogan
,
Jeremy Dumble

Photography

Summer Agnew
,
Jeremy Dumble

Editor

Adam Luxton

Production designers

Lisa Dunn
,
Chris Stratton

Sound

Ande Shurr
,
Oli Wade

Sound post

Max Scott

Music

Golden Axe
,
96 Eyes

With

Francois Byamana (Frank)
,
Morgana O’Reilly (Kelly)
,
Moses Alofokhai (Moses)
,
Adam Luxton (George)
,
Emmett Skilton (Roger)
,
Florian Habicht (con artist)
,
Natalie Harrison (Vanessa)
,
Niamh Peren (George’s girl)
,
Abdullah Alkhalaify (Lax)

World Premiere

Event Cinemas Queen St, 24 July 2012

Elsewhere

Jeremy Dumble and Adam Luxton’s micro-budget, made-on-the-dash art movie tracks random sets of Auckland characters linked by a bizarre video project. Frank, a Rwandan taxi driver stunned by the disappearance of his wife, sees nothing else to do but carry on driving. Meanwhile, Moses, his solemn 14-year old son, is obsessively creating an artwork that entails a lot of time in the bathroom. A group of disenchanted young bohemians greet the Moses video with sheepish admiration: they’re up to their necks in environmental crap and psychic shit and here’s some school kid who gets it. Luxton counts himself among them, performing the role of alpha bohemian George in whom worldly exasperation still carries a spark of high expectancy. An eye-popping cameo from Florian Habicht exemplifies the film’s rude energy and sly disengagement from the mainstream. And its picture of the Auckland CBD as an aggregation of inane giant billboards is a hard one to shake.