The Performance | short film
An artist's tribute to her late sister unravels, revealing old tensions and her need to say goodbye.
15mins
Role: Writer/ Director
Creative Team
Writer / Director Laura Turner
Producer Chhayly Moek
Cinematographer Sarah Whyte
Production Designer Nicholas Warburton
Editor Zac Loy
Music Darcy Archer
Sound Supervisor Luis Rumbolo
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Cast
Dana Miltins
Diana Popovska
Eleni Cassimatis
Cloé Fournier
Xavier Masson-Leach
Michael Pigott
Flowers for Hamish | short film
A reclusive paramedic seeks connection.
10mins
Role: Director
Creative Team
Writer Lachlan Parry
Director Laura Turner
Producer Chhayly Moek
Cinematographer Sarah Whyte
Production Designer Charlotte Layfield
Editor Zac Loy
Music Darcy Archer
Sound Supervisor Luis Rumbolo
Cast
Hazem Shammas
Danielle King
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we, the lost company – an adaptation
Clockfire Theatre Co.
A moving poetic tribute to mother nature’s most mysterious element – the ocean.
31 mins
Role: Co-Director (adapted for screen in collaboration with Clockfire Theatre)
Excerpt
Adapted from the original stage work by Clockfire Theatre Company
Original concept and stage direction by Emily Ayoub
Film Adaptation by Laura Turner
Co-produced by Emily Ayoub & Madeline Baghurst
Cinematography and editing by Laura Turner
Performance direction by Emily Ayoub
Performed by Madeline Baghurst, Ryuichi Fujimura & Alicia Gonzalez
Arrangements & Original composition by Ben Pierpoint
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SCREENINGS
Global Fringe Festival – digital 2020 Sydney | Stockholm | Brighton | Melbourne
Riverside Theatres Digital – 2021
Witkacy and Malinowski: A Cinematic Séance in 23 Scenes
Haunted by the recent suicide of his lover, the artist and visionary playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (known as Witkacy) took a train through the Australian countryside in 1914 with his friend, the anthropologist Bronisław Kasper Malinowski.
41mins
Role: Co-Producer
Trailer
Written, adapted and directed by John Gillies
Sound and vision John Gillies
Co-producer Laura Turner
Consulting producer Lech Mackiewicz
Cast
Pollyanna Nowicki
Tom Pelik
Matej Busic
Richard Hilliar
Craig Meneaud
Paul Dwyer
Chris Ryan
Clare Grant
Screenings:
Sydney Film Festival 2019
Brisbane International Film Festival 2019
Bushflicks, Worrowing 2019
People's Republic, Sydney 2018
Immortality, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2018 (screen installation)
Gra w i z Witkacym, Tatra Museum 2020
Video Hair | Music Video (MONIKER)
4.30mins
Role: Director / Editor
full work
Music Artist: Moniker
Video produced by The Habitat Productions
Moniker produced by Stu Hunter
Director: Laura Turner
Cinematographer: Joseph Florio
Gaffer: Gregoire Liere
Performers: Moniker and Co.