Based on the long distance conversations between Luhsun (Australia) and Aladdin Sisalem (Manus island detention centre PNG)

presented in 35mm Cinemascope

screening print available for hire from the National Film and Sound Archive

 (traumerie auf grenzen, 2004)

An abstract parallel world depicted with sublime humour the politics and xenophobia against the plight of refugees

- 06:30 seconds - Animation / Documentary / Experimental - 35 MM 2.35:1 - DOLBY SR

IMDB title tt0856104

written and directed by Luhsun

3d visual effects - Carl Looper

sound foley - Rose Turtle

original music - Kelly Ryall

sound Editing and final mix- Rose Turtle

sound engineered into DolbySR by Doron Kipin at Music and Effects

HD transfer by ATLAB Sydney

assisted by the Ian Potter Foundation and ANAT Australian Network for Art and Technology

animation assitants - Calder Hussey, Callum Cooper

performances by Peat Moss and Dario Vacira

Screens as the short to A Scanner Darkly, cinema Nova season, Lygon St. Carlton, Melbourne, Australia, December 2006

21st Interfilm Berlin, Germany, 1st-6th November 2005

Detroit Docs International Film Festival, Nov 2 - 7, 2005, Detroit, USA

18th Seagate Foyle Film Festival,35mm short film competition, Northern Ireland 11 - 20 November 2005

The reconstruction "under-construction" workshop, Architects for Peace, Melbourne, Australia,October 22nd,2005

Seattle International Film Festival, USA, 2005

ATOM awards, Australian Teachers of Media, Melbourne,Australia,October 2005

National Film and Sound Archive national collection, Screensound, Australia

Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey, Mexico , 2005

Big Bear Film Festival, California, USA, Sept 16/17,2005

Harries Digital art exhibition,Exhibited finalist,QUT Art Gallery,Queensland, Australia, September 2005

Melbourne International Film Festival ,screens in animation section and experimental section with Chris Cunninghams Rubber Johnny, Victoria, Australia,2005

Perth Revelation International Film Festival, Australia,(screens with Naomi Klein's 'The Take' )2005

Asian Cinevision, Asia Society, Park Avenue, New York 2005

Vladivostock International film Festival, Russia, 2005

Lucania International Film Festival, Italy, 2005

EmergeD, Group exhibition, UK, Edinburgh, 2005

VCA School of Film and TV, opening night screening, ACMI, Australia, 2004

"Out in the desert, dreams merge and collide in this stunningly animated mix of styles and forms" Seattle IFF

thanks to Natalie Miller and Cinema Nova
and Adrian Martins article