Graham Tardif

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Graham Tardif
Born1957
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
OriginAustralia
Occupation(s)Composer

Graham Tardif (born 1957) is an Australian screen music composer. He is the composer on ten feature films directed and written by Rolf de Heer. Their most acclaimed collaboration, The Tracker (2002), resulted in an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award for "Far Away Home" as Best Original Song Composed for a Feature Film, Telemovie, TV Series or Mini-Series (shared with de Heer) in 2002. The Tracker also provided wins at Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards (Best Music Score) and IF Awards (Best Music) for the pair.

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History

Graham Tardif was born in 1957. [1] He attended Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney. There he met Dutch-born writer, director and producer Rolf de Heer, for whom he composed screen music on ten feature films. [2] [3] [4] They first worked on de Heer's short film, The Audition (1979), for his AFTRS diploma. [2] Tail of a Tiger (1984) had Tardif composing the score for de Heer's first feature film. [5] [6] Fellow composer and musicologist Cat Hope analysed Tardif and de Heer's works including The Tracker (2002) and Alexandra's Project (2003). [4] She observed, "Tardif's minimal electronic score in Alexandra's Project implies the undercurrent of invisible electro-magnetic signals in an urban landscape, making an ordinary street seem like a harbinger of impending doom." [4] Their "most meaningful collaboration" was on The Tracker where songs were delivered by Indigenous artist Archie Roach, which "not only adds an extra layer of narrative to the film, but also personalises the de Heer/Tardif working relationship and gives it a new voice." [4]

Filmography

Credited as composer: [7] [8] [9]

Accolades

YearNominated workCategoryAwardResultNotesRef.
1988 Incident at Raven's Gate Best Original Music Score AFI Awards Nominated(shared with Roman Kronen) [10] [11]
2003 Alexandra's Project Nominated
2003 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Nominated
2002 "Far Away Home"Best Original Song Composed for a Feature Film, Telemovie, TV Series or Mini-Series APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards Won(shared with Rolf de Heer) [12]
2002 The Tracker Best Original Soundtrack Album ARIA Music Awards Nominated(shared with Rolf de Heer and Archie Roach) [13]
2002The TrackerBest Music Score Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Won(shared with Rolf de Heer)
2008 Dr. Plonk Nominated
2002The TrackerBest Music IF Awards Won

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