Graham Tardif


Graham Tardif 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, 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 in 2002. The Tracker also provided wins at Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and IF Awards for the pair.

History

Graham Tardif was born in 1957. He attended Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney. There he met Dutch-born writer, director and producer Rolf de Heer, for whom he composed screen music on ten feature films. They first worked on de Heer's short film, The Audition, for his AFTRS diploma. Tail of a Tiger had Tardif composing the score for de Heer's first feature film. Fellow composer and musicologist Cat Hope analysed Tardif and de Heer's works including The Tracker and Alexandra's Project. 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." 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."

Filmography

Credited as composer:
! scope="row" | 1988
! scope="row" | 2003
! scope="row" | 2003
! scope="row" | 2002
! scope="row" | 2002
! scope="row" | 2002
! scope="row" | 2008
! scope="row" | 2002