Art Neurography

Art Writes and Directs films. He also writes songs, plays guitar, bass and keyboards, and occasionally warbles into the microphone, then records, mixes and masters the songs. It’s all part of a gigantic creative conceptual continuity.

Art Directed These Films:

Key Psycho

Key Psycho is a mash up between John Huston’s ‘Key Largo’ and Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’. Set in the Tasmanian backwater in the year 2004, it mixes the plots of the two films into one. Naturally, it is black and white with some old-school Hollywood stylings. 60minutes long, it is a very black comedy starring Jai Koutrae, Darren Schnase, Warwick Poulsen and Bernadette Marr.

Touch

Touch is a short film written by Kendal Jones based on a real story about a woman who can just make herself have an orgasm without touching herself in anyway. She simply has the ability to will herself to have an orgasm. Starring Kendal Jones and Tony Curtis (no, not that one, the other one).

Rakuda 1.2

A comedy based on the rakugo 落語 piece ‘The Camel’. About a hated guy Tommy Rakuda who dies and leaves a legacy that doesn’t amount to much, it features the adventures of an errant plumber, trying to solve the mystery of Tommy’s death.

Pizza Driver

A super-short film (2min 45seconds) about a pizza delivery dude who runs over a cat…

Wired and Running

A 35mm short film shot at AFTRS. It’s the original cyberpunk movie that actually beat ‘Johnny Mnenominc’ to the screen by 18months. It’s got guns, blood, and explosions in the sky – Rare for a film school production of its time. It is also the very, very very first film to undertake 3D animation at AFTRS in its history. Winner of the USMPSE Vera Miles Award for Best Student Film.

Whos’ Your God?

A very black, apocalyptic comedy about why religions are the end of us all. Strangely, with the way history is unfolding, it seems like it was quite – pardon the pun – prophetic.

Art’s Discography

Here are some of Art’s recordings:

The Abortion of Cool

First, there was ‘The Birth of Cool’. Then, there was ‘The Re-Birth of Cool’. Now, there is ‘The Abortion of Cool‘! Electric Guitar Instrumentals from the planet weird. If you can imagine a guy who really just wanted to launch into guitar breaks over all that acid jazz and other loop-based music, then Art is your man! This is the first album of material assembled on Mac by Art Neuro. It was originally uploaded on iCompositions but has since been re-mastered into this current form.

Satellite City: Live At The Manning Bar

A live set from the time Art played in the band ‘Satellite City’. ‘Satellite City: Live at the Manning Bar‘ is an album of energetic prog rock from a more adventurous moment.

Art’s Recorded Works In The Public Sphere:

Art played bass in a band called ‘Satellite City’. That project has evolved into ‘Coelacanth’. Do check out the link. The Coelacanth site was designed by SolGuy.

Some of Art’s songs are noteworthy in that they tackle flat-out objectionable material. Some people call this ‘plain wrong’. Other people call it ‘Zappa-esque’. They’re probably both right; but as we all know, it’s a big world, and there’s room for most kinds of songs.

‘Astronaughty’ is a song about former astronaut and former US Navy Captain Lisa Nowak, who rode 3000 miles in astronautical diapers so as not to waste time with pee-breaks, on her way to attacking the other woman in a relationship with another NASA astronaut who was Nowak’s ex-lover. Yes, it’s a little sordid and complicated.

‘Pony the Orangutan’ is a song about an Orangutan that was kept as a sex slave in a brothel in Borneo until it was rescued.

‘Dungeon Dad’ is a song about the Austrian Dungeon Dad Josef Fritzl who kept his own daughter captive and repetedly raping her and having children with her; half of whom he kept in the dungon with his daughter, the other half he brought up above ground.