Collider and Collider Studio launch Daniel Askill’s film ‘Lunacy’

At the peak of the Geminids meteor shower on December 14th 2023, ‘Lunacy’ premiered on Shark Island (Boowambillee) in Sydney Harbour.

Daniel Askill’s experimental feature film first piqued interest online in the early beginnings of Summer with an exclusive clip via Nowness. Following this teaser, cast, crew, family and friends were ferried across from Rose Bay Wharf, where they gathered for the premiere of ‘Lunacy’, presented as a multi-screen installation produced by Collider, See Pictures and Heckler.

Guests from Vogue, GQ, The Australian, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, RUSSH and more, were also among those who celebrated the debut.

Filmed on a remote compound in Australia’s ancient Daintree Rainforest and improvised over a three-week period with an ensemble cast, the unscripted project was inspired by Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel and is an expression of Askill’s visually striking work, incorporating themes of the natural world and self, explored through sumptuous movement and design.

The film features performances by Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Isabel Lucas, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lily Sullivan, Kirin J Callinan, Priscilla Doueihy and Trevor Jamieson, and music by These New Puritans in combination with original music by Matteo Zingales and additional music by Laurie Anderson, Michael Askill, Tenzin Choegyal, The Church, Steve Reich, Jesse Paris Smith and John Tavener.

The Shark Island premiere will be followed by an installation in Los Angeles and a highly anticipated International streaming release.

Click here to view the ‘Lunacy’ Trailer, and for any enquiries email rachael@collider.com.au or olivia@collider.com.au