In 2007 Matthew completed the score for a short animation called ‘In a Pig’s Eye’ by Irish animator John Paul Molloy, the founder of Twisted Animator Productions together with Irish audio specialist Michael Nestor. The film, which features the voice of eminent Australian Actor (Barry Otto at IMDB), was developed through the facilities at the School of Audio Engineering in Sydney and will be screened in three programs at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The festival screenings are to be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) a Federation Square, Melbourne. Tickets can be purchased from the ACMI website here.
Saturday 21st June 2.30 – Australia panorama
Saturday 21st June 4.15 – International program 4
Sunday 22nd June 5.15 – International program 4
The score was recorded at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music and features the University of Tasmania Chamber Soloists String Orchestra under the direction of Peter Tanfield.
‘It is not the best lit place in the world. Meat hooks hang on the wall. A chart depicting a pig and its various meat cuts is pasted to a wall. We see the walls are some what weathered with bumps and scratches and the checkered tiles on the floor look old and grimy. A cartoon boar provides strange relief from the somber surroundings There is a row of pig corpses lining the back wall. A meat cleaver encrusted with blood has been firmly stuck into a large cutting table so that it sits upright. In the center of the table sits a pigs’ head wearing glasses. A butcher, skinny, unshaven and weary looking is standing in front of the cutting block. His sleeves are rolled up…….’
