Experimental Films


Interview With a Sand Dune (2023)

Award-winning filmmaker Catherine Gough-Brady and award-winner composer Gail Priest collaborate on a short film in which land is a holder of knowledge. They ask the sand dunes questions, and it answers.

Director
Catherine Gough-Brady

Composer
Gail Priest

Screenings
Sightlines Gala Opening Night, Adelaide, Australia



Interview with a Tree (2021)

https://vimeo.com/snodgermedia/interview-with-a-tree

Considering our disastrous global relationship with nature, I set out to explore how I could relate differently to nature as a filmmaker. Instead of observing a tree, I decided to interview it to see how that changed the way I filmed it.

Director
Catherine Gough-Brady

Broadcast on Delete TV, Austria
2022 Collarts ATOM Awards Best Screen Production Research Moving Image Work: finalist



70+ (2020)

https://vimeo.com/snodgermedia/70plus

Tess Brady candidly reflects on ageing – on death, life and the future – now that she is over 70. Her story is one shared by many older women and is poignant for younger women thinking about their own ageing processes.

Director
Catherine Gough-Brady

Writer/Voice Over
Tess Brady

2021 Film Geographies, London



Rivers (2019)

https://vimeo.com/snodgermedia/rivers

A river exists in both geological time and an ever changing present. Fragments of the Murray-Darling river system form the central characters in this film, and the rivers invite you to see the world from their perspective.

Director
Catherine Gough-Brady

Sound Design
Kyle Barbour-Hoffman
Mitchell Waters

2019 SAE Atom Awards Best Tertiary Experimental Film: finalist
2020 Dumbo Film Festival Experimental Film: finalist
2022 Film Geographies, London



Reflections on the Murray Darling (2019)

In this three-channel experimental short film images of the Murray-Darling rivers create reflections upon themselves. The film was specifically designed for the public screen at Federation Square, Melbourne.

Director
Catherine Gough-Brady



Expect Delays (2018)

https://vimeo.com/272663869

Expect Delays experiments with John Grierson’s idea of ‘co-operative characters’: no one character is central to the story. In Expect Delays humans and machines work together to destroy, rest, and then create our world.

Director
Catherine Gough-Brady

Sound Design
Mitchell Waters
Kyle Barbour-Hoffman

2018 SAE Atom Awards Best Tertiary Experimental Film