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Whispering In The Dark is a short film funded by the Australian Film Commission and developed by writer/director Lynne B. Williams and producer Aida Innocente. It stars Rachel Blake and Daniel Schlussler as a couple who appear snared in each other’s memory of their fractured and transient relationship. Through a series of self-enveloping moments, the two appear to replay their own version of the events that lead to their chance encounter and the aftermath as they leave each other.
Counter to the generally naturalistic approaches taken to drama in Australian film and television, Lynne’s film unabashedly harks back to the psychological complexities of the Nouvelle Roman cinema of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alain Resnais & Marguerite Duras. There is no clear time frame in the story; the voice-over narration is shared by both characters; differing versions of the single event are replayed; and no clearly defined logic determines a clear connection between the depicted events. In place, a poetic reverie guides the film as we become lost in the psychological currents which drift between the two characters as they explore the transitory and sado-masochistic fringes of their own disposition.Whispering in the Dark premiered at the St. Kilda Film Festival in 2002. The score to Whispering in the Dark will be released on the CD Filmmusic Vol.2 by Sound Punch Records in May 2009.
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