Logline:

An Indigenous man navigates three parallel realities; at once a rough-sleeper, an aspiring actor and the employee of a mining corporation. Can he find a place within Australian society or is he bound to remain an outsider in his own land?

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‍Synopsis:

'Faceless' is a short film that explores the intersection of identity and class along the Birrarung-Ga (the Yarra River) in Naarm (Melbourne). The film’s Indigenous protagonist attempts to navigate a world alien to him. In the dense metropolis, he’s subject to three intertwined scenarios with people from different class backgrounds and social milieus.

As if in parallel realities, his character changes in each scenario; at once a rough-sleeper, an aspiring actor and the employee of a mining corporation. He hears the stories of an ageing veteran, a young artist, and an alpha-male stockbroker in each scenario respectively, providing windows into starkly different social constructs. While these scenarios are intercut throughout the film’s runtime, they depict the protagonist developing an ability to assimilate into disparate worlds that exist across Australia’s socio-economic spectrum, a process that ultimately reaches boiling point.

With the Birrarung-Ga as its backdrop, a traditional meeting place for First Nations people in the region, 'Faceless' is a dreamlike, twisting and turning psychological drama that questions the masks we all wear and the stories we tell to survive.