Crusoe Of Tin City

On a beach at the edge of a great desert, an old man lives alone with his dog in a town half buried in the dunes. They might be the last people left on Earth. But when the last of us is gone, what remains?

Yannick Jamey – Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Musician
Eliza Scott – Writer
Tayan Hunter – Voice Over
Ernst Reijseger – Music Composer/Musician

This is my first short film, made entirely on my own and shot over the course of multiple trips to this unique location in Australia. At first, I started with a documentary approach but in the editing room it turned into something more abstract, following a loose narrative.

I felt that there was a poetry to the images and the character’s silence that spoke for itself. There was also somehow a childlike feeling to it, echoing ‘The Little Prince’, which spoke to me. And so I decided to write a poem specifically for the images, read by a child — a prophetic, almost “impossible” voice if you will, which becomes open to interpretation.

So this became, quite unexpectedly, a very personal and experimental film for me, that simply explores a feeling, a fantasy or metaphor… about childhood, about being cast away, about trying to find a decent place to lay our head.