The Thousands

We all know Nigel Koop is nuts – remember when he shaved the moustache part of his beard? That was creepy. Then there was the time he recorded a “live album” at the Jade Monkey that was just him dressed as Jesus reciting dirty limericks. One time he recorded six months’ worth of his own farts and mixed them into a full-length album. The man’s a genius, I tell you.

We may never understand Nigel Koop, but writer/director Stephen Banham sure does, at least enough for the two of them to collaborate on a thinly-fictionalised movie about Adelaide’s small-town slacker scene. Banham himself isn’t exactly a paragon of sanity – he gets his dick out at the start of the movie, apparently for no reason at all.

Point is, you really ought to see Adelaide. Watching it sort of makes you feel like you live in a more romantic town, like Montreal, or a rain-soaked post-industrial Glaswegian slum. Also you probably know everyone in it.

COUP: It’s been nominated for Best Feature at the 2010 South Australian Screen Awards, and they’re screening it at the Mercury Cinema on the first night! I know, right? What are they, nuts?