Nursery Rhymes

Year listed: 2019

Published at the original source: 2019-09-09. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

6 min · English · Comedy

On the side of a rural highway, a young metalhead is inexplicably belting out 'Old MacDonald'. What begins as a surreal, contextless scene slowly becomes a puzzle as the camera turns to reveal the devastation around him, and a chain of reveals challenges first impressions and prejudices about who he is and why he is singing. Filmed almost entirely in a single take.

Why we picked it

Tom Noakes's AACTA-nominated single-take Australian short: why is a metalhead singing Old MacDonald by a rural highway? Five minutes that flip every first impression.

Not curator-rated. Mature themes may occur; source and content review pending.

Source: Short of the Week

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