"Fidget & Foil" is an original poem we wrote about the provocative subject of Sydney's inner-city drug culture: set against the neon back drop of "the Cross"; the city's infamous den of dirty deeds and the nocturnal playground of partiers and insomniacs. The filmmaker was left alone to interpret the poem and opted to create a tale of two doped-out lovers, navigating their way through clubland to the first light of dawn.

Like the BBC, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) is a nationally funded broadcaster that has never ran advertising within its programming. So the challenge for us - when asked to promote its Arts Channel - was simple: how do you advertise a brand whose audience so clearly rejects advertising? The answer was to create art films.

King hits and high queens

Of bus stops and false starts

The Cross lies awash

With testosterone's tide

Your last stop to bedlam

And its perilous shelter

Lays limping and clammy

Doomed dog on slack leash

The Grimace and grace of

a dagger-sharp strobe light

Neon-hot land mines

Snagged fast on the barb

While mayhem's mascara

Starts twitching in synch

And spasms of dance trip to telegraphed rapture

Bitumen's bait

Kissed by fidget and foil

Slice through the stench to

Your first touch of daylight

Ever the bait, you

But never the hook

Ever the bait, you

But never the hook