Duane Hopkins

Field

Duane Hopkins

Kevin Firkins, Tim Dyer

An elegant, abstracted expression of provincial life in which ordinary everyday details become frozen and magnified as its young protagonists find themselves implicated in a moment of sheer madness.

Love Me or Leave Me Alone

Duane Hopkins

Jay Firkins, Zoe Rietti

In a small rural village, a boy and girl have a fight and each storm off their separate ways. The day passes and the boy realises that he shouldn't have a made a big deal out of the argument and tries to get in contact with his girlfriend. He takes his bike and sets out to try and find her before the end of the day.

Bypass

Duane Hopkins

George MacKay, Donald Sumpter

Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods... In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?

Better Things

Duane Hopkins

Tara Ballard, Betty Bench

Gails agoraphobia keeps her inside where she escapes into romance novels. She shares a house with her Nan, recently back from the hospital. Gradually, they both try to reach out to each other to break their isolation. Rob plunges further into his addiction as a way of numbing his heartbreak over the death of his girlfriend. In his stupor, he dreams of embracing her again. Mr & Mrs Gladwin are going through a shift in their 60 year relationship. Years of resentment and unspoken truths have built a barrier between them that Mrs Gladwin, in her abiding love, tries to erode in little gestures.

Short Plays

Vincent Gallo, Pablo Stoll

Sami Samir, Kiki Sugino

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Twelfth Man

Duane Hopkins

Twelfth Man belongs to Short Plays, a Daniel Gruener project commemorating the 2014 World Cup.