The streetsweeper is a loner who finds poetry in the ordinary... The Streetsweeper is a languid off-beat 75 minute feature film. A portrait of an urban Australian landscape as seen through the keen eyes of an eccentric pedestrian: inspired by the great "street films" of Antonioni, Godard, Jarmusch, Kiarostami, Linklater, Tati, Vertov & Wenders.—Anonymous
A man walks out of the sea at dawn. He works his way across a small industrial harbour city, pushing & pulling his trusty buggy & broom, zigzagging from one beloved zebra crossing to another. Inspired by the ephemeral things he finds on ordinary streets lost love letters & modest moments and prone to spontaneous poetry, this princely pedestrian rambles on. Unnoticed by most passers-by, he strolls through the sleepy CBD, wanders between ordinary suburban bungalows, dances in the cemetery, and takes the highway through the swamp out of town... until, three days later, at sunset, his odyssey ends by a river...
