Test Pattern is a podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett. Conversations about the films that shape us — first watches, deep cuts, lifelong obsessions, and the ones we build our personalities around. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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Test Pattern is a podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett. Conversations about the films that shape us — first watches, deep cuts, lifelong obsessions, and the ones we build our personalities around. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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July 7, 2026
Hyun Lee
<p>Hyun Lee is a Sydney-based writer, director and photographer. Her feature debut, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/frenchgirlsmovie/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">French Girls</a>, recently premiered at Sydney Film Festival.</p><br><p>She joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about making a movie on a microbudget, what films get wrong about the fashion world, and what comes after French Girls.</p><br><p>We get into: QCing your own movie, searching for festival laurels, SBS foreign films, learning to tell stories through a camera, making movies feeling suddenly achievable, noble teenage ambitions, 80s avant-garde Japanese designers, what movies get wrong about fashion, models as people rather than stereotypes, finding Mia, working with non-actors, crying on film, the onion as a dramatic device, train nerds, Young Einstein, Sydney films, skate parks and film sets, the beauty in ordinary faces, and Hyun’s five favourite movies.</p><br><p>Music by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/japanesewallpaper/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gab Strum</a>.</p><br><p>Find <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hyunleeee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hyun</a> on Instagram.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

June 24, 2026
Close-Up: Adrian Chiarella & Joe Bird
<p>Writer-director Adrian Chiarella and actor Joe Bird join Angus Truskett to discuss Leviticus, a new Australian queer horror film set in a conservative regional community.</p><br><p>They talk about combining supernatural horror with queer romance, creating a monster that can only hurt you when you’re alone, Joe’s first leading role and how the </p><p>filmmakers managed to pull off the film’s Frank Ocean needle drop.</p><br><p>This is the first edition of Close-Up, a new series of shorter, focused conversations from Test Pattern with filmmakers about their latest work. Test Pattern is a podcast about movies and our relationship with them: first watches, deep cuts, lifelong obsessions and the films we build our personalities around.</p><br><p>Music by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/japanesewallpaper/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gab Strum</a>.</p><br><p><a href="https://open.acast.com/testpatternpresents" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@testpatternpresents</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

June 2, 2026
Elfy Scott
<p>Elfy Scott is an award-winning journalist, presenter, producer, author and film fan. Her debut book is The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About.</p><br><p>She joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about the movies that shaped her, the unexpected empathy of Jackass, Ken Burns’ documentary magic and Don Bluth’s animated classic Anastasia.</p><br><p>We get into: Movie title recall, sophomore slumps, feeling the Ken Burns, Japanese baseball beer girls, Don Bluth’s Anastasia, bushy Sydney, handling horror, Sentimental Value is basically Sex and the City, being the Worst Person in the World, the beautiful empathy of Jackass, The Virgin Suicides was born to the reblogged on Tumblr, accurate portrayals of news rooms in cinema, not liking Barbie, perfect Prefect Days.</p><br><p>Music by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/japanesewallpaper/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gab Strum</a>.</p><br><p>Find Elfy on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/elfyscott/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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