Lunacy - in Post-Production

Art Film

Installation Experience

Expected Release 2024

Lunacy is a film and installation experience created on a remote compound in Australia’s ancient Daintree Rainforest. Improvised over a three-week period with an ensemble cast, the film is in part inspired by Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel.

Told in nine movements, the allegorical narrative follows six strangers who receive an invitation to a rainforest retreat. When the enigmatic host fails to arrive, the guests gradually realise they are inexplicably unable to leave. As tensions rise, the strangers are forced to confront their true nature.

Lunacy was developed by the writers and then interpreted with the cast and crew in a collaborative environment of performance and movement workshops, while living in the remote rainforest location in Cape Tribulation.

Director: Daniel Askill

Writers: Daniel Askill, Lucy Warren Bidwell, Gregory Stern, Bobbi Salvor Menuez

Cast: Bobbi Salvor Menuez, Isabel Lucas, Kirin J Callinan, Hunter Page Lochard, Lily Sullivan, Priscilla Doueihy, Trevor Jamieson