Brains?

Brains? really likes this guy’s style; can do attitude, snappy dresser, dead. Welcome to our newest animated zombie, Simon Jones. Who are you? Simon Jones, I’m a zombie, which isn’t as bad as it might sound. Sure you have flies to deal with in summer, but if I fall apart doing some neat trick, I [...]

It may appear to the casual observer that the film industry in Perth consists solely of a man dressed in rags wielding an old 8mm running around town trying to find depressed people he can use to make a short film. The only other film makers in Perth would be the students, who soon after [...]

Brians? has a new man-crush, this guy. Seriously, watch the demo reel and then search your feelings, you know it to be true. Could Matt Z be your father? Who are you? Matt Zappala What do you do? Act. Write. Edit. Direct. What have you done? I am a partner in the creation of a [...]

Ever wonder what it’s like to have a script read in front of the multitudes? Burleigh Smith was kind enough to share some thoughts on the triumphs, the heartbreaks and the feedback forms at PAC. Burleigh Smith: Screenplay reading last Wednesday evening went well. Some seventy or eighty people showed. All ages, from early teens [...]

The WASA nominated music video for The Scotch of Saint James’ track was quite a purty little effort so Brains? tracked down the pixel-pusher behind it, who turned out to be Ben Berkhout. Or did he track Brains? down coz the editorial policy is a tad lax? Either way he’s on the up-and-up and we [...]

As possibly the hardest working man in the indy scene at the moment, he’s “made 3 shorts inside 5 months as a director whilst working on a few more as a 1st AD”, Damien Giglietta has a disappointingly small amount of stuff online to pad this interview. But word on the street is that his [...]

As the recent apocalypse fades into the mist of time, it’s time to collect a few of the vids from around the tubes. But before we do, a request in the form of a poem….. A frequently heard Perth big storm joke We should make a [bourbon/rum] and coke using the hail as ice A [...]

It takes a certain kind of person to put your inner parts out there on the web, and judging by the Perth Youtube Group membership there are dozens of them in The Pretty City. Jenzatron is a particular specimen, a Perth YouTuber and gadabout, she’s rocking them out there on the Tubes. Click on the [...]