‘This Film was constructed from mostly my personal archival footage. Contributing camera operator credits go to; me, my kids, my wife, my friends, mates, pals, random peeps, extended family & calver film crew. The Film was backed by Film Australia, Dogwolf, Trasmission, Madman, a few Private Investors and obviously mostly by me “THE LISTERS” — considering I literally provided 92% of the entire content. HAVE YOU SEEN THE LISTER was edited by Director: Eddie Martin. For the few months that the Film was “in production” i told Eddie that I didn’t care what he wanted to make and for him to just do his thing. As a Filmmaker, Eddie is an artist in his own right. I consciously did not attempt to influence, direct or control the narrative or Eddie’s impression of me or my footage whatsoever. Personally, I would’ve made a different Film. Over the past 3 decades I have accumulated literally hundreds of hours of filming, so really, with that amount of footage, the Film could’ve been chopped up and pieced back together in any number of patterns to ultimately make whatever narrative Eddie wanted. This movie was released in 2017 and was picked up by Netflix where it was viewable until a few years ago. Typically, i was deceived by the producers re contracts, lawyers, managers, hypers etc yadda yadda etc. “THE LISTERS” did not make any $ from this Film…so, like… —you’re welcome— . This is a pretty emotionally driven movie. It’s more about my family life than my art practice (just to let you know). Like I said; I would’ve made a different Film. Either way, despite everyone involved getting paid except for me and my family, it’s an honest documentary to be fair.’
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