Our Films
The Feature Films of Expect Problems
Insecurity
Insecurity was shot in just four days, largely as a project to prove that it was possible for us to complete a feature film a very short space of time. Due the location constraints and the number of actors we were able to use without making the project unfeasible, we decided to develop a film in a genre that really doesn't exist, per se - we made a hacker film.
After our four day (and very, very grueling) shoot, a few months of post-production work ensued. After this, we decided to release the film under a Creative Commons 3.0 license in May, 2008. The film remains available on archive.org and via bit torrent.
For more information, check out the official web site.
Written & Directed by Rohan Harris
Starring Kurtis Wakefield, Peter Love and Zoe Tarling
Also featuring Ben Sand
Cinematography by Jay Mitra, Rohan Harris & Kurtis Wakefield
Stills Photography by Jay Mitra
Produced by Rohan Harris and David W. Murdoch
Despite being a serious narrative, after completion, as a pet project I decided to re-cut the film's trailer as a Grindhouse-style parody trailer, portraying the film as a bad slasher / exploitation film. Check it out below.
Dead Man Drinking
After completing Insecurity, we decided to attempt a larger project. Going from two principle actors to five, and giving ourselves three or four weekends six weeks later to complete the project on, I set about writing the project while holidaying in Melbourne.
Inspired by a school-yard game called Killer (or Assassin), Dead Man Drinking is a dry comedy about four twenty-somethings with a lot of issues who take the game a little too seriously.
After two months of shooting on weekends on location across a number of suburbs within Hornsby Shire, we began post-production.
As of now, Dead Man Drinking has been fully completed, and we are making preparations for the film's release in December. For more information, check out the official web site - and watch the trailer below.
Written & Directed by Rohan Harris
Starring Jen Greiss, Hannah Moltoni, Peter Love and Kurtis Wakefield
Director of Photography Jay Mitra
Produced by Rohan Harris
Future Projects
We have four projects in various stages of pre-production at the moment - three completed screenplays and two treatments.
One of the former has been chosen as our next project, and will be larger and scope while maintaining our zero-budget philosophy.
At this stage, we plan
Problems Expect Production An: A Brief History of Expect Problems
In the beginning (and often between larger projects), we've made some short films to try and make all the mistakes we could when it wouldn't really matter.
These included:
Gabriel
A proof-of-concept short we did in a night to experiment with prosthetics. The "story" simply involved a conversation between a back-alley surgeon with a creepy demeanor and his patient, a HardMan(tm) who was unwillingly used as a safe-deposit box for a few too many chunks of lead.
Jumpcut
Our first "proper" short, Jumpcut told the satirical story of a hit-woman named Syd Smiles. In the near future, legal precedents result in hitmen being legally covered by similar laws that hold down Lawyers and Doctors - the result is that the business of being a hired killer becomes semi-legitimate.
Unable to afford the few hundred measly dollars it'd take to advertise on late-night television like her competitors, Syd Smiles instead distributes two-for-one coupons and the like on the back of supermarket dockets. Armed with an inability to hit the broad side of a barn from fifty paces and the cheapest rates in the business, meet Sydney H. Smiles - Contract Killer for those on a budget.
Due to a run-length of nearly 16 minutes, Jumpcut is presently not viewable on youtube. However, it does exist elsewhere on the net, and if your google-fu is win, you might just find it.
Shot as one of three "Stories" (inter-related shorts), The Chunda Weed is precisely that - a short film about the difference perspective can make on the re-telling of a story.
Our most recent project, Bastard Ending was shot to experiment with newly purchased sound equipment, but ended up being watchable enough to warrant release on the net.
Bastard Ending is another story - this time about a girl's quest for painkillers after a night of too much drinking. It also features some excellent music by Mabafu.
