The Wetting (2026)
Single-channel video, 15 mins
Exhibited at FLUX, Sydney Film Festival 2026
The Wetting spiders out from Richard Miles’s 1965 novel That Cold Day in the Park. In Miles’s text, a spinster notices a young blonde man sitting in the rain in a nearby park and invites him back to her park-side Vancouver apartment. In 1969, Robert Altman made a film adaptation with a screenplay by Gillian Freeman and the formidable Sandy Dennis bringing all her repressed intensity to the role of the spinster. In 1991, Bruce LaBruce made a skinhead art porn version called, No Skin Off My Ass.
Like the novel and both previous film adaptations, The Wetting moves between two locations: a public park and an apartment. In this version, the Spinster's desire to control the Blond deepens, but when the Blond falls ill a doctor is called and tensions escalate.
Collaborators
Spinster - played by Eugene Choi
Blond - played by Megan Holloway
Doctor - played by Toby Tsonis
Assistant Director - Anna Breckon
Production Design - Al Joel
Cinematography - EO Gill, Rowena Crowe, Nisa East, Imogen Heath
Sound Recordist - Michael Toisuta
Music Composer - Nina Buchanan
Sound Design - Bob Scott
Scenic Assist - Emily Borghi
Camera Assist - Kata Szász-Komlós, Bruce Koussaba, Hana Truban
Makeup - Leila El Rayes, Sophie Roberts, Toby Tsonis
Set Build Support - Blue Castles, Lyndsay Noyes, Harrison Witsey
Lighting Assist - Sam Icklow
Stand-in Blond - Siân McIntyre
Runners - Lotte Thompson-Vock, Remi Todarello
Catering - Remi Todarello
Title Graphics - Charlie Cummings
Funding Support
Create NSW
Creative Australia
Special Thanks
Toby Petch, Sydney College of the Arts
Richard Manner and Barbara Campbell, Rex Cramphorn Studio
Performance Space
Artspace
