Join writer, producer and lecturer Sandy Cameron as we dive deep into the screenplay of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man — a film that drifts through the Western genre like a fever dream, part acid vision, part elegy. Told partly in deadpan poetry and partly in silence, it dismantles frontier mythologies through spectral violence. With echoes of Rancho Notorious and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Jarmusch’s uncompromising, Spirit Award–nominated script asks whether this is the last Western or the first of something else.

Please read the screenplay to Dead Man prior to the night via the link here. Dead Man also screens as part of the Cinematheque at the Mercury‘s “Jarmusch: Art and Influence” program, alongside Rancho Notorious, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and more.

Sandy Cameron is an Australian Writers’ Guild award winning screenwriter and feature film producer. His work has screened in official selection at Sundance, Toronto, Venice and South By Southwest film festivals, streamed on Netflix, Stan and Binge and been remade internationally. He has been nominated for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award and a company he co-founded has been nominated for Production Company of the Year by Screen Producers Australia. He has also worked extensively in screen funding agency roles and is a Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He is currently in postproduction on MOCKBUSTER, a feature documentary directed by Anthony Frith, financed by Screen Australia, the South Australian Film Corporation, Adelaide Film Festival and VicScreen,  and distributed internationally by Giant Pictures.