2025 Iris Prize

Hold Still

An origami swan folded in secret. Close friends lying on their backs in the sun. A sanitary pad expanding in the grass. Second glances shared at dawn. A collection of the ‘in between’ moments after Logan, a lonely dancer in rural Victoria, meets a tradie at sunrise.

DIRECTOR:

Emily Dynes (She/Her/Hers)

PRODUCER:

Jasper Caverly & Kristen Augeard

WRITER:

Emily Dynes

RELEASE YEAR:

2024, Language: English

Australia, 12 mins

Alarch origami wedi’i blygu yn gyfrinachol. Ffrindiau agos yn gorwedd ar eu cefnau yn yr haul. Pad misglwyf yn ehangu yn y glaswellt. Ail gipolwg a rennir ar doriad gwawr. Casgliad o’r eiliadau ‘rhwng’ ar ôl i Logan, dawnsiwr unig yng nghefn gwlad Victoria, gwrdd â tradie ar godiad haul.

Emily Dynes is an award-winning visual artist and filmmaker committed to crafting inclusive, honest and intimate storytelling. Her films have been featured in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s prestigious Accelerator program. She was most recently awarded Best Victorian Short at the 2023 edition of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival for her work Everything Gone.

Mae Emily Dynes yn artist gweledol a gwneuthurwr ffilmiau arobryn sydd wedi ymrwymo i greu straeon cynhwysol, gonest a phersonol. Mae ei ffilmiau wedi cael eu cynnwys yn rhaglen Accelerator fawreddog Gŵyl Ffilm Ryngwladol Melbourne. Yn fwyaf diweddar, dyfarnwyd y wobr Y Ffilm Fer Fictoraidd Orau iddi yng Ngŵyl Menywod mewn Ffilm Melbourne 2023 am ei gwaith Everything Gone.

2025 Iris Prize Shortlist