Alongside the hypnotic score composed by writer/director/editor Ivan Sen, images from the 1850s Australian gold rush flash across the screen. The score soars, using tryptic note patterns, ascending and descending; the beginning, middle, and end are storytelling scales, approximating the film's circadian rhythms. Fade to black. A title card: Goldstone.
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Blake Howard is a film critic, podcast host and producer behind One Heat Minute Productions, a home for obsessive, cinematic deep-dives, including One Heat Minute, Miami Nice, Increment Vice, All The President’s Minutes, Zodiac Chronicle, Podcaster and Commander and Minhunter. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The sun rises and sets with his wife Sam and two children, Hazel and Keaton. Michael Mann has personally complimented his obsessions and called him “insane.”

