| Illuminations | |
| Director: | Paul Cox |
| Producer: | Tibor Markus |
| Starring: | Gabriella Trsek |
| Cinematography: | Paul Cox Brian Gracey |
| Editing: | Paul Cox Russell Hurley |
| Runtime: | 74 mins |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | A$31,000[1] |
Illuminations is a 1976 Australian film directed by Paul Cox. It was Cox's first full-length feature film although he had made numerous shorts beforehand.
A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but then recovers her enthusiasm for life.
The film was inspired by a dream Paul Cox had in the early 1970s about being trapped in a coffin, seeing people who he had known all his life.[2]
$16,000 of the budget came through the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australia Council, with the rest from private investment. It was released through Melbourne Co-operatives but never recovered its cost.[1] [3]