Supporting Actor
Made in collaboration with artist Phil Vanderhyden, the debut film follows an animated avatar of the Supporting Actor himself – a longtime friend and collaborated of Schoolwerth’s – musician Aaron Dilloway, who also made the soundtrack for the film. In the film we follow a simulated version of Dilloway through a series of sets: a tiled bathroom, a club, and a third site akin to a studio or gallery. Our story begins in a familiar dream space, the bathroom, as the protagonist brushes his teeth and discovers the sound conjuring a series of anthropomorphic stains on the Celotex ceiling tiles. Suddenly, one stain above him opens a portal, welcoming him into a fantastical club. Equal parts Star Wars cantina and psychedelic cabaret, the luminous environment throbs with figures inventively drawn from the stain shapes as these farcical post-human creatures dance ecstatically to Dilloway’s soundtrack.
