This is a story about beauty and death...

An Asian killer (Jun-Ho Chung) travels to a lighthouse "at the end of the world": the heavenly Byron Bay at the most
easterly point of the Australian mainland. He has been hired to assassin a beautiful young woman (Rebecca Johnston)
who seems to be enjoying her honeymoon with her partner (Jean-Luc Battista).
As the killer begins to observe the newly-wed couple he becomes obsessed with the girl's beauty and soon has to
realize that what was supposed to be a "walk in the (national-)park" would turn out to be a "mission impossible"...

Death in Byron is inspired by the novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and the film adaptation by
Italian director Luchino Visconti. Apart from the fact that in both stories a lonely man is continuously
staring at what he considers to be the personification of divine beauty, they don't seem to have much
in common. Anyway, both films make use of the melancholy mood of the 'Adagietto' of
Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the attempt to create a perfect synthesis of image and music.

Death in Byron has been filmed on Sony HDV. Click here to see a high resolution sample (800 KB).

Click here to download the original movie script (30 KB)
Click here to download the production logbook (416 KB)