2. spiders on my lashline (dir. grace tan)
SHORT / UPCOMING
Spiders on My Lashline is a poetic, queer revenge story. Dreamlike and surreal, this was such a fun film to design. Together with Grace and DP Jaclyn Paterson, we began pre-production 10 months before the shoot, which allowed for a very aligned and highly researched visual language.
We used the same colour palette throughout the film, but delineated between past and present by utilising dull and saturated versions of the same colours. Key design references included Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow, Wim Wenders’ Paris Texas, Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Red was a motif, and thus used highly selectively.
It was also important to us to create an accurate setting for a 90’s Viet Christian Sydney family. We looked at a lot of Western Sydney images from the time, and leaned into the eccentricities of Australian suburbia, referencing photographers like Warren Kirk and George Crewdson.
bathroom scene
bedroom scene
BTS of child bedroom scene lensed by Sherry Zheng.
Design references for child’s bedroom.
Strip club scenes
with thanks to crew
director - grace tan
producers - chidiebube uba, louise todd-smith, debbie zhou
1st ads - lindsay mcdonald, richard divapiriam, lucy gale
2nd ad - jack colwell
dop - jaclyn paterson
1st ac - james bartlett, david robinson smith
2nd ac - jonathan adrian
production designer - abbey ling thorley
on set art director - ella drinkwater
standby props - indigo ryan
buyer/dressers - corah fortune, elena hale
art assist - sian pannach
costume designer - marisa suen
hmua - carly lim, layla naidoo, brianna galbutt, anna kowalski
gaffer - marcel breed, tahira donohoe-bales
lighting assist - jacob laser
sound recordist - luke fuller
bts photographer - sherry zheng
editor - will suen
vfx - gary yeung, paul courtney
runner - terry hou