Smoking Moon is a thirteen minute black and white film.
Like a creature from the ocean depths, an ancient crescent moon hangs in a black void smoking a cigarette. Smoking Moon is at once an illusion, a trick with light, a self portrait and a recording of a performance. This charming and witty film is desperately sad yet funny; lonely yet affecting. Using 16mm film for the first time, at Camden Arts Centre Austen presented Smoking Moon – the first in a series of films he intended to make.