From the film-maker:

I was attracted by Wright's use of chiaroscuro and used high contrast lighting in the Test Room where Dr Bunker observes his test subjects. Elsewhere, the main characters are lit largely by artificial light, similar to the painting. The film is styled to reflect a 1970s vision of the future. The cockatoo is suffocating inside a bell jar; I felt this resembled a crystal ball, which inspired my futuristic setting. I see the painting as being as relevant today as it was at the start of the Industrial Revolution. The cockatoo's near-suffocation begs the question of how far humanity will go in the name of 'progress'. My film explores how a human clone might relate to the person he thinks is his maker and what his sense of reality might be. Lachlan believes his father has put his lover in jeopardy and sets out to free him, with unexpected consequences.

Kerry O'Brien

A piece inpsired by Joseph Wright 'of Derby',  An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768