Nice Shot, No Problem interweaves scenes from an unnamed narrative film with documentary footage of the crew making the same film. During the process of recording ADR with their Japanese lead actor, the sounds of fiction and the sounds of reality begin to overlap.

Note: The original narrative film (titled The Groundskeeper) was a short funded by The Film & Television Institute of WA, which was shelved after a couple of screenings because we weren’t happy with the result. A few years later, we were scouring through tapes for footage to send to the actor (Taro Mizuno) as a memento and stumbled across the ADR session – which I didn’t even know had been recorded, and which was much better than the film we’d set out to make in the first place. An earlier version of Nice Shot, No Problem, made up of only the documentary segments and titled Recording Foley, had a one-off screening at The Great Southern Film Co-op.