Cris Jones

Cris Jones was an award-winning filmmaker based in Melbourne. His short films The Funk, Excursion and The Heisenberg Principle have screened at over a hundred international film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam and South by Southwest. Cris received the Emerging Filmmaker Awards of both the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Film Critics Circle of Australia. He was part of the Melbourne International Film Festival's inaugural Accelerator program and was invited to attend the Binger Director's Lab in 2013. The Death & Life of Otto Bloom was Cris's first feature film and opened the Melbourne International Film Festival last year. He was working on a couple of new projects. Cris' storytelling is smart, funny and moving; his interest in philosophy and science isn't a pretentious trick to show how much cleverer or better read he is, but is a genuine engagement with these ideas to better explore the truth of who we are, what we are doing here and why anyone should care. Cris is survived by his mum Karen and brother Alex and his family of friends and colleagues. "Although we know that after such a loss the acute state of mourning will subside, we also know we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else. And actually, this is how it should be. It is the only way of perpetuating that love which we do not want to relinquish." Freud in 1929.