"I like to get into bed, with my dressing gown and slippers on, and turn all the lights off and put some nice easy listening tracks on and open a packet of chocolate biscuits. That is when I feel the safest of all. It's a funny thing being one of the survivors of a bungled armed robbery. You’re one of the lucky ones because it wasn’t you shot in the bloody head by ... and that thing they did to that poor old lady was just sickening. But I suppose I’d feel better if they were all dead. The robbers..."

The Pyjama Monologues is a short film produced by the team of Unreasonable Films (Jason Sweeney - Director/Composer) and Fiona Sprott (Writer). The film will be a series of perversely funny, haunting and provocative vignettes that draw upon Fiona’s darkly comic stories about isolated characters who confess their strange little bedroom secrets. It will follow absurd scenes of off-kilter characters who find themselves in public places in their pyjamas, vulnerable and lost; characters who are trapped by their obsessions of bedroom life, bedroom fantasies...

The funding raised for this film will assist with camera/lighting/sound hire - as well as minimal props and costumes. We will work on locations, using natural light and sound wherever possible for maximum effect.

"I mean most people like to hide their mental illness but I embraced mine. Nobody trusts a woman in her forties wearing Tweety Bird pyjamas for four years in a row and so nobody expects anything from me any more."

We plan to shoot the film over one week in December 2011, with a planned rough cut scheduled for February 2012. We're aiming for an 8-10 minute film.

WHO ARE UNREASONABLE FILMS AND WHY DO WE NEED YOUR HELP?

We are a tiny intrepid team setting out to make DIY films with small budgets about BIG ideas.

Our films aim to be high quality, risk-taking and 'hand-made', often with key creatives playing multiple roles and working between self-shooting, performing, editing, composing.

We often employ a 'guerilla-style' approach to filmmaking, unafraid to point, shoot and experiment.

The sense of strangeness in an off-kilter world needs to be found through a kind of intimate filmmaking process and through an ability to experiment with a small ensemble of performers.

And we would like to involve public participation wherever possible - so here is your chance to invest in unreasonable filmmaking!

We are a long-term artistic collaborators based in Adelaide, Australia. We bring to the project over 20 years of professional work in theatre, music, film, online art and screen culture.

Jason Sweeney has produced, written, composed for and directed a series of short films, including the acclaimed experimental short DISAPPOINTMENT (2006). This film won the Best Experimental Film at the South Australian Short Screen Awards in 2007 and has screened internationally at such places as the MIX New York City Queer Film Festival, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece), XPosed Film Festival Berlin and Mumbai Gay and Lesbian Festival. He is directing his first experimental feature film in 2012. His interdisciplinary practice in the last 8 years has been in the emerging, risk-taking and constantly developing fields of new media art, sound installation, live art, interactive community projects and screen culture.

Fiona Sprott is an established writer of twenty years, in the fields of live performance, screen-based projects with Unreasonable Films, and more recently has moved into professional screenwriting. She holds a Masters Degree in Creative Arts, and is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Philosophy with Flinders University working on an interdisciplinary research project with both the Drama Department and School of Law. Her artistic and academic practice is heavily invested in contemporary forms, provocation and risk. She has been in a dynamic and productive creative partnership with Jason Sweeney for more than twenty years, producing contemporary work which explores the nature of audience interaction or contribution to a live performance. Sprott and Sweeney also cultivate a thriving interdisciplinary practice combining academic research with creative development for both live and screen based outcomes. Along with Jason, Fiona now lectures in contemporary performance making and practice for tertiary institutions.