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Paradise is a short film funded by the Australian Film Commission and developed by writer/director Ilana Shulman and producer Lizzette Atkins. It stars Angie Milliken in a highly stylized symbolic tale of domestic discord and female estrangement. A woman appears to be in a relationship with a man; maybe the child is hers, his or both. They form a family unit of sorts, albeit a disembodied one. Just as the man seems to have come from nowhere, that is where the woman eventually goes.

Paradise is either too oblique to consider in narrative terms - or it is a simple story of familial structures viewed through a complex metaphorical prism. A sumptuous visual veneer and gestrual performances devoid of dialogue render the film opaquely poetic, yet the sexual tension hums in each and every scene.

Paradise premiered at the 47th Melbourne International Film Festival in 1998. The score to Paradise appears on the CD Filmmusic Vol.1 released on Sound Punch Records, 2002.

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