Benjamin Burr FILMMAKER PORTFOLIO

BTS of various film sets I have crewed on.

About Me

Developing a keen obsession with filmmaking and art from an early age, I have taken every opportunity to explore cinema. Honing an aesthetic language through collaboration in various department roles and creative outputs.

Currently a student at Swinburne University Of Technology studying a Bachelor of Film And Television (Honors).

Credits

  • Stars In Her Eyes (Writer/Director)
  • This Is How You Burn A Manifesto (Writer/Director)
  • Into The Endless Oblivion (Writer)
  • A Fight For Safety (Producer)
  • Cusp (Cinematographer)
  • Pincer (Cinematographer)
  • Plastic Sniffers And Resin Punks (Cinematographer)
  • Never Forget (Cinematographer)
  • Perfect Point Of Rejection (Cinematographer)
  • Skeela (Cinematographer)
  • Stop Gap (Assistant Camera)
  • Enlightenment Inc. (Assistant Camera)
  • Bareback (Assistant Camera)
  • Burgendy Rum Advertisment (Gaffer)
  • Tales From Cantara Cabin Ep.3 and Ep.5 (Gaffer)
  • Tenderfoot (Gaffer and BTS)
  • Hierarch Hair (Gaffer and BTS)
  • Tall Sad Girl And Punk Short Girl Are Friends (Gaffer)
  • An Unfortunate Engagement (Gaffer and BTS)
  • Big Johnny (Gaffer)
  • The Wake (Gaffer and BTS)

Into The Endless Oblivion

Two young parents grapple with the inevitable decision to euthanise their newborn with a terminal illness.

Pincer

After a night out a Jewish man tries to get home, but what lurks in the shadows wants him somewhere else.

Never Forget

Since November 2022, a team of volunteer teachers with extensive experience in curriculum design and teaching French to Year 9-12 students, worked on this project. By July 2023, a 20-minute documentary was made on the life of Esther Wise, who was a 15-year-old Jewish girl during World War Two and survived the Holocaust. After the war, Esther migrated to Melbourne, Australia where she still lives today at age 99. The last 7 months have been devoted to creating comprehension and communicative activities based on Esther's personal story as she relates it in the documentary.

This Is How You Burn A Manifesto

Inspired by numerous bizzare conversations with strangers, 'This Is How You Burn A Manifesto' is a triptych of monologues performed by Aaron Herman following the modern anxieties of three idiosyncratic city flanuers; The Ukulele Man, The Nine-To-Five Catastrophic Thinker and The Failed Writer.

Photography

Outside of film, I also do photography both as a passionate hobby and occassional contract work.