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APRA Screen Music award winner James Mountain is back with another beautiful film soundtrack, recently released to Spotify, Apple music and other streaming platforms.
Having garnered much success from award winning films Mud Crab (2022, screened at Raindance 2022 and MIFF 2022) and Oi (2024), Mountain finds himself now collaborating with new up and coming Melbourne based writer/director Jake James Whitford, on his dreamy short film Lincoln.
Lincoln, directed by Whitford, follows a young boy’s intense connection with men's adoration of women in noir films, which is tested and propelled after an encounter with his intimidatingly mesmerizing neighbour. Ben Keller (Nowhere Boys 2013, Seven Types of Ambiguity 2017) takes the lead role as Lincoln amongst a talented ensemble with Steffi Gil and Mia Barrett (Sunflower, 2023).
The film explores the exploration of beauty in both modern and golden age settings, allowing for the making of the music to truly be explored in multiple ways.
The soundtrack is an eclectic mix of dreamy synths, golden age strings and throbbing electronics, tied together by a sense of the protagonist’s desperation to be seen.
“We wanted the score to reflect both the darkness and isolation of the character but also his yearning to be part of the community. With such a variety of styles in the score it was a fun challenge to explore those themes in different ways and with different instrumentations.” (James Mountain)
The student graduate film also won the award for Highly Commended Major Project and has now entered its film festival circuit, earning itself a semi-finalist at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival and a selection at the Down Under Film Festival 2025.
Screening in Berlin in October, Down Under Film Festival Directors Mala Ghedia and Angus McGruther had the following to say about Lincoln:
“Whitford’s short film Lincoln is beautifully crafted and superbly performed. Its depiction of a misfit teen’s sexual awakening is at once compelling and thought-provoking.” - Down Under Film Festival (Berlin and Copenhagen).
More about Lincoln can be found on ‘thecreekco’ production company Instagram account, and the soundtrack can be found on all streaming platforms: