''Third Person Plural'' is a 1978 film directed by

James Ricketson James Staniforth Ricketson is an Australian film director, known for the feature film ''Blackfellas''. He became more widely known when he was charged with espionage for flying a drone in Cambodia in 2017. Film career Ricketson studied at the A ...

and starring Bryan Brown.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p136 The script was devised by the actors and director in a workshop. Ricketson has since called the film an "experiment":

I just wanted to see whether it would be possible to make a film on that small budget, shoot the whole thing with a hand-held camera, integrate improvised dialogue with scripted dialogue, work with a small core of actors on a character-based piece, which is what I did, and then to approach the editing of the film in an innovative way. Now, I happen not to like the film myself. Having done the film - it was fun to do it - I decided that I didn't like it, and it certainly wasn't the direction that I wanted to go in.Interview with James Ricketson, 22 May 1995
Retrieved 20 October 2012

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''Third Person Plural''
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