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'MEMOIRS OF A PLAGUE'

Feature length (77mins) Australian Documentary funded by Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Screen ACT and National Geographic.

Produced by Mitzi Goldman &
Robert Nugent
[www.viafilm.com.au]
• Edited by Rowena Crowe
• Cinematography by Bonnie Elliott,
Robert Nugent, Peter Neahros
• Sound Design by Adrain Bilinsky
• Original score, written and performed by Kristin Rule
• Location sound by Will Sheridan, Dan Miau


Director & Co-Producer
Robert Nugent

Co-Producer
Mitzi Goldman
Looking Glass Pictures

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MEMOIRS OF A PLAGUE
Robert Nugent

Memoirs of a Plague's opening sequence harks of end of days, but it soon becomes apparent that filmmaker Robert Nugent's relationship - and indeed humankind's relationship - with locusts is a great deal more complicated. Nugent almost serenades the insects with sweepingly cinematic, orchestral montages, presenting a creature that can fascinate and repulse in equal measure. Biblical tropes of the harvest and the rains are updated and experienced anew in two countries worlds apart, Australia and Ethiopia. Farmers and their communities in both locations are battling with the locusts, praying to science to support the fight. But like a swarm of locusts across the sun, the outcome is anything but clear.

SCREENINGS @
Hot Docs Canada 2011
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2010
Opening Film at the
Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, 5th of October 2011

Canberra International Film Festival, October 2011
Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York, November 2011
Idocs, Beijing, December 2011