Woodenhead

Infobox Film
name = Woodenhead


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director = Florian Habicht
producer = Florian Habicht
writer = Florian Habicht
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starring = Nicholas Butler (NZ)
Teresa Peters
Steve Abel
Mardi Potter
music = Steve Abel Mardi Potter
cinematography = Christopher Pryor
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distributor = Olive Films
released = flagicon|New Zealand 2003)
runtime = 90 minutes
country = New Zealand
language = English
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imdb_id = 0388544

Woodenhead is the name of a 2003 New Zealand film directed by Florian Habicht.

The film is a dark fairy tale in the style of the Brothers Grimm, and is based around the life of a dump-hand called Gert and a mute princess called Plum. The two wander into the forest with a donkey and mysterious things start to happen. The film explores the dark sexual material in this mythic context.

The film is unusual in that the sound was recorded before the film was shot, and does not match the visuals. It is in crisp black and white and was shot in the Northland Region. The voices of the main two characters are musicians Steve Abel and Mardi Potter and the actors are Nicholas Butler (NZ) and Teresa Peters.

The film was shown in the 2003 Auckland, Wellington and Melbourne international film festivals and has been released on DVD.

Florian Habicht has also made a film called "Kaikohe Demolition", a loving look at the demolition derby in his hometown Kaikohe, and "Rubbings from a Live Man", an intimate documentary about New Zealand actor, writer and director Warwick Broadhead.

Trivia

Habicht states on the DVD that the film was inspired by a dream in which two angels appearing as Milli Vanilli fly into a stadium and tell him that the band lip-synched their music, apparently unaware that this is common knowledge. They then tell him to make a film where the sound is recorded before the visuals.

External links

* [http://www.woodenhead.co.nz Official site]