| Dogs in Space | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Lowenstein |
| Written by | Richard Lowenstein |
| Produced by | Glenys Rowe |
| Starring | Michael Hutchence Saskia Post Nique Needles Deanna Bond Tony Helou |
| Music by | Michael Hutchence |
| Distributed by | Hoyts (Australia) Columbia TriStar Home Video Umbrella Entertainment |
Release date |  18 December 1986 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Dogs in Space is a 1986 Australian drama movie about Melbourne's little band scene in 1978. It was directed by Richard Lowenstein. It starred Michael Hutchence as Sam, a drugged dazed singer of a band named Dogs in Space.[1]
The story was from Lowenstein's personal experience of living in a shared house in Melbourne in the late 1970s. Lowenstein had already worked with Michael Hutchence making rock videos.[2] He also produced video clips for songs from the INXS album The Swing. He wrote the lead role of Sam with Michael Hutchence in mind.[3][4]
The character Sam is about a real member of a punk rock band that Lowenstein had lived with in the 1970s. The house in the movie was the one they had shared. It was rented from its new owners and changed back to its original condition for the movie. The cost for the deconstruction of the house was part of the movie's budget.
Copies of Dogs in Space are being preserved by the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.[1] This means the movie will be protected from damage that happens to older film that was used to make movies.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Australia's Irving Archive. "Dogs in Space". National Film and Sound Archive. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ "INXS' Hutchence in Screen Debut". The Canberra Times. ACT: National Library of Australia. 27 November 1986. p. 4 Supplement: The Good Times. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p142-143
- ↑ Kathy Bail, "Putting the Bite Into Dogs in Space", Cinema Papers, January 1987 p14-18