Richard Lowenstein

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The Profile

Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director and screenwriter known for cult narratives and music-driven cinema, from Dogs in Space to He Died with a Felafel in His Hand and the documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence.

Directed numerous INXS music videos (including Need You Tonight and Never Tear Us Apart); made Dogs in Space (1986); adapted He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001); directed Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011) and Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019).

Three reviews paint Lowenstein’s Felafel-era cinema as chaotic, surreal, and tenderly human. Australia’s share-house purgatory becomes a stage for disillusionment, friendships, and cigarettes—lots of them. The rock-steeped soundtrack (hello, California Dreamin') and sharp, oddball dialogue drive a bittersweet cult aura. Some call it overlooked; others, a small masterpiece.

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