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29 Years Eight Days is an intimate portrayal of a friendship, an obsession, the quest for artistic success, loss and longing in love but most of all it is about the making of an artist in our time. Matt Doust was an internationally renowned portrait painter who was born in Santa Monica and grew up in the hills of Perth. He died suddenly from an epileptic fit a week before his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles. He lived with an innate sense that his life was going to be short. It was this sense of brevity that made him paint with extreme conviction, commitment, passion, focus, motivation and love.
This project was one of the 2019 Brian Beaton Award recipients, was selected for AIDC FACTory Pitch 2018 and has received documentary development funding from ABC Arts, Screenwest and Screen Australia. It is also supported by the Documentary Australia Foundation.
Directed by Mat de Koning
Produced by Brooke Tia Silcox
29 Years Eight Days is an intimate portrayal of a friendship, an obsession, the quest for artistic success, loss and longing in love but most of all it is about the making of an artist in our time. Matt Doust was an internationally renowned portrait painter who was born in Santa Monica and grew up in the hills of Perth. He died suddenly from an epileptic fit a week before his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles. He lived with an innate sense that his life was going to be short. It was this sense of brevity that made him paint with extreme conviction, commitment, passion, focus, motivation and love.
This project was one of the 2019 Brian Beaton Award recipients, was selected for AIDC FACTory Pitch 2018 and has received documentary development funding from ABC Arts, Screenwest and Screen Australia. It is also supported by the Documentary Australia Foundation.
