The Void

Written and Created by Joe Bauer & Rita Artmann

Directed by Joe Bauer

Produced by Rita Artmann

Editing, Music, Visual Effects and Sound by Joe Bauer

Additional Music by David Lazar and Scott Pagram
Additional Visual Effects by James Whiffin

Comedy Web Series

First Air Date: October 26, 2011
Duration: 6 x 30mins
Format: Digital 1080p

“The Void” is a six-episode comedy series that had its premiere on 31Digital (channel 44), Brisbane’s community television station, in late October, 2011. The show is a “skit-com” about a group of unappreciated young filmmakers trapped by contract on a never-ending (12 years and counting) feature film project called “The Void”, under the direction of a woeful, yet inexplicably pretentious twat with a seemingly limitless supply of funding.

The stories revolve around the five underlings – Lu, the drama queen lead actress; Fex, the nerdy editor/visual effects guru; Milly, the down-trodden sound recordist; Ed, the sarcastic camera operator/grip; and Wilton, the brown-nosing gopher. In their endless struggle to appease the constantly-shifting, often illogical whims of Gustaf, their fascist director, they find themselves drifting in and out of tangential fantasies, intertextual parodies and parallel universes. Such are the insanities of independent filmmaking.

The Void was conceived in early 2011 by creators Rita Artmann and Joe Bauer, who also star as Lu and Fex, respectively. The Void also stars Emily Curtin as Milly, Isaac Moody as Wilton, Lawrence Silver as Ed and Rob Jenkins as the evil Gustaf.