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Title: Passionless Moments (1983)
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Cast
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David Benton | ... |
Ed Tumbury
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Ann Burriman | ... |
Gwen Gilbert
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Alan Brown | ... |
Neighbor /
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Sean Callinan | ... |
Jim Newbury
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Paul Chubb | ... |
Jim Simpson
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Sue Collie | ... |
Angela Elliott
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Haedyn Cunningham | ... |
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Ron Gobert | ... |
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Elias Ibrahim | ... |
Ibrahim Ibrahim
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Paul Melchert | ... |
Arnold
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George Nezovic | ... |
Gavin Metchalle
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Jamie Pride | ... |
Lyndsay Aldridge
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Gordon Quiller | ... |
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Keith Smith | ... |
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Yves Stening | ... |
Shaun
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Storyline
A voice says, "There are 1,000,000 moments in your neighborhood; each has a fragile presence which fades almost as it forms." Ten such moments are dramatized, from a chubby man exercising and realizing that "sex" and "thing" go together to an ill, bored child discovering that most pieces of paper fit on top of a Scotties box. Along the way, a child races time, a matron thinks she hears a woodpecker, an unfaithful gay man wonders why his eyes can't focus on two depths simultaneously, Angela thinks about her uncle's pet pig as she eats pork, beer-drinking Ed recalls his school football days and vows to get back in shape, and a bachelor remembers his mother. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
A remarkable first short film by a student (or fresh out of film school) - as much for the script as anything else. I happened to see it on TV as a teenager and then made various other people watch it too when I spotted it coming round again.
The film simply shows a series of short quirky moments in people's everyday lives. For example, a man stretches his arm as he wanders out of his house, and this gesture is mistaken by a neighbour who thinks he's waving at him.
Quirky moments such as these have since become the stuff of observational comedy, except that the ones depicted here are so small that they would pass quite unnoticed if not isolated and commented on by this film.