Michael Yezerski Scores The Little Death
Nylon Studios composer Michael Yezerski has recently worked on the film score for The Little Death, one of seven Australian films that recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Premiered at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, the comedy from first-time director Josh Lawson takes us inside the homes of what on the surface looks to be everyday Australian suburbia to reveal a slideshow of fetishes and pent-up repressions.
“The film is a modern tale however the themes of compassion and understanding explored are timeless,” Yezerski said. “The score takes its cues from the sound of Old Hollywood, to 1930’s Jazz, to 80s Love Ballads – basically the music of love, which serves to reinforce the theme that love and companionship, despite the obstacles, endure.”
No stranger to the big screen, over the past few years Yezerski has composed music scores for awarded international and Australian films including The Black Balloon (Best Picture, AFI Awards), The Lost Thing (Oscar Winner, Best Animated Short) and box office hit Mental (starring Toni Collette). Under Steve Jablonsky, he has written additional music for Transformers 4: Age of Extinction.
Revered for his musical range, he has worked on action dramas including Drift and Storm Surfers 3D through to more delicate observational films such as The Turning (starring Rose Byrne and Miranda Otto). He has worked extensively in television with Australia’s hugely successful drama A Place To Call Home and the biopic Carlotta.
Nominated three times for the highest accolade in Australian Film, the AACTA Award, Yezerski has won five APRA-AGSC Australian Screen Music Awards, Best Classical Artist at MusicOz, Gold Medals at the Park City Film Music Festival as well as nominations from the if Awards, MusicOz Awards and two nominations from The Film Critics of Australia Awards. Slated as a “rising star” of Australian music, he was included in the Sydney Morning Herald’s list of “People to Watch”.
