Human Traces

You have to be able to trust your gut as to what is working as a director. Improv helps with that. You have to be really open as an improviser and be prepared to go in directions that you didn't plan. You can't really hold onto things. That is really important for a director. You have to be open to new magic.

– Director Nic Gorman on how a background in improvisation helped on set, Stuff, 26 July 2017

...the emotionally fearless performances that the three leads put on the screen make it impossible not to be drawn into their inner worlds. There was a wild alchemy down on those crazy rocks and whatever I did to help facilitate this I’m happy with.

– Director Nic Gorman on what he is proudest of about the film, Flicks, 12 July 2017

...a pacey thriller of madness, megalomania and conflict between three conservation workers isolated on a sub-antarctic island whose individual perspectives are looped into the film's impressively knotty narrative structure.

– Reviewer James Robins, in a Listener list of the best 20 films of 2017, 16 December 2017