eating ice cream with your eyes closed

Series Overview

Eating ice cream with your eyes closed is a darkly funny, emotionally charged, and structurally daring series that unfolds in real time across a single chaotic night in the fictional regional Australian town of Mayoonderie; a world held together by plastic containers, broken dreams, and brutal honesty.
 

Tone

Raw. Hilarious. Poetic. Painfully real. A collision of Deadloch, Widow's Bay and Population 11 in a paddock full of bin juice, karaoke, and emotional baggage.

 

Visual & Cinematic Style

Natural light, fluorescent realism, and soft handheld. Static shots contrast with frenetic movement.

Low-fi live stream footage woven into sequences. Hyper-local: a servo forecourt becomes a theatre.

 

The Structure
Each episode unfolds in real time, following one continuous half-hour of events from late evening to dawn.

The series follows a rising spiral of entanglement.
 

Themes

Masculinity, mentorship, racism and cycles of violence. Queerness, shame, and reclamation.

Comedy as resistance. Disability, trauma, and DIY healing. Family as harm and salvation.
 

Episodes  1–3 - Collisions
A train dumps Macca. Dayne robs the servo. Doug arrives sweaty and unhinged. Martin’s estimation becomes a domestic hostage situation. Women throw spoken-word grenades at the pub.
 

Episodes 4–6 - Connections
The groupings shift. Bonds form (Macca/Dayne, Martin/Sharday, Cherry/Valda). The past intrudes: shrine rituals, milk myths, junkie-death re-enactments. Doug burns down Mayoonderie's only tourist attraction; a huge pampas bush.
 

Episodes 7–9 - Chaos
The night frays. Live streams explode. Cherry’s waters break and fills Tupperware containers. Dayne is pushed to fight. Doug believes he’s vanilla. Martin is reborn through estimation trauma. The servo becomes a stage.
 

Episode 10 - Delivery
The storm hits the servo. Everyone prepares for the worst. The power goes. Things look bad. Ambo arrives. Baby drops. Storm passes. Mayoonderie dances.​