dirs. Jen Atherton & André Shannon,
2018 – 2023
99 mins. Eora/Australia.
In English.
Test Screening World Tour:
January 27 - Pink Flamingo Cinema, Eora/Sydney, Australia
March 28 - Miscellania, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
May 18 - Ancient World, Tarntanya/Adelaide, Australia
June 15 - Spectacle Theater, New York City, USA
June 25 - ACMI, Naarm, Melbourne, Australia
An Actor Prepares
Angus McGrath, Runway Journal
Review: Grape Steak (2023), Garden Reflexxx
Review + Interview with Outtakes, Joy FM
Vibrant colour invites us into a bat forest as someone waits and strips for trade. A drummer is interviewed about a violent confrontation as he smashes his kit. A slim figure limps out of the darkness covered in blood to the sounds of New York's underground popstar Macy Rodman. A car bangs along an old dirt road and picks up stragglers, lost overnight who seem less affected than maybe they should be considering...
Grape Steak is a wishfully ambient portal, a love-poem of trauma and humiliation set in Sydney, a slow comedy for a come-down, made resourcefully and communally over five years.
Starring:
Rattus Rat as Toad
Gloria Bose as Gloria
Freya Aisbitt as Gayle
Enoch Mailangi as Hayley
André Shannon as Bart
Porsche as Herself
Rhys Pepic as Fadey Jadey
Buddy Joel as Lesley
Neil Addison Beedie as Skyler
Luke N T Ada as Baby Hayden
Henry Benn as Mordecai
Lily Bennett as Elizabeth
NICOLA as Hot Dancer 1
Beau Kirq as Hot Dancer 2
Aaron Manhattan as Hot Dancer 3
Meti Fenwick-Nevin as Pinky
Robert McGrath as Gaspar Noe
Brian as themself
Samuel Bowman as The Filmmaker
Eric Hancock as The Drummer
Featuring music by
Ex-Rental
Macy Rodman
Planningtorock
Eris Drew
Weyón
Strict Face
Magda
Alaska Orchestra
California Girls
Cinematography
Max Boutwell Draper
Claire De Cateret
Daniel Hartley-Allen
Jen Atherton
Yahya
Original Score
Megan Alice Clune
Sound Mix
Niko Plaskas
Additional Sound
Ry Edwards
Mardi Gras Location Sound
Kean Hoi
Meteor Animation
Tommy Green
Eta Aquarid Footage
Ufowatcher
Camera Drawings
Lily Bennett
Featured Artwork
Little Skin, 2019
Neil Addison Beedie
Main Title Design
Alex Tanazefti
Images made with
Apple iPhone SE & (Product)Red
Recycled 35/16mm scratch film
Arri Amira
Macbook Air (Photobooth)
Sony Handycam Vision
JVC Everio
Sony NX200
This film was shot, and edited on unceded Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the sovereignty of First Nations people, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.