Whoever Was Using This Bed

Whoever Was Using This Bed
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAndrew Kotatko
Written byAndrew Kotatko
Based on"Whoever Was Using This Bed"
by Raymond Carver
Produced byAndrew Kotatko
Marie Slaight
StarringJean-Marc Barr
Radha Mitchell
Jane Birkin
CinematographyGeoffrey Simpson, ACS
Edited byRoland Gallois, ASE
Music byBen Frost
Jon Hopkins
Robert Mackenzie
Production
companies
Midnight Coffee Films
Altaire Productions
Release date
  • 13 January 2016 (2016-01-13) (Flickerfest International Short Film Festival)
Running time
21 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Whoever Was Using This Bed is a 2016 Australian short film directed by Andrew Kotatko. It is based on the short story of the same name by Raymond Carver from his 1988 collection Elephant. The film stars Jean-Marc Barr, Radha Mitchell and features the voice of Jane Birkin.

The film was co-produced by Altaire Productions and Midnight Coffee Films, with post-production funds successfully raised via crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

Whoever Was Using This Bed won Best Drama in the Australian Film Institute / Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts's 2016 Social Shorts competition.

It is Kotatko's second adaptation of Carver's writing, the first being Everything Goes starring Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish and Sullivan Stapleton.