Otherzone was a short film backed by Film Victoria's Independent Film Makers Fund. It was a self consciously 'cyberpunk' film, seeking to build ideas which had gained currency in science fiction writing. Otherzone was begun in 1993, and following funding approval from Film Victoria, went into production in April 1996. Completion followed two years of work on the post production and animation for the film.

Click here to see the official web site for the film, which once resided on the Cinemedia (now Australian Centre for the Moving Image) web site.The site was designed by Melbourne design house Toy Satellite, and overseen by Mr Andrew Garton.

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One of the central ideas in the film was the notion of 'netspex' or network spectacles, which were head-mounted-display systems which resembled a pair of sunglasses with a microphone. Netspex were to facilitate ongoing communication and navigation multimedia for persons traversing urban space. In the film two characters have versions of Netspex. One is Zheng, the central character, whose sunglasses let her see way-points appearing on the horizon, as well as the identity and placement of landmarks on the horizon. The other character is that played by performance artist Stelarc, the Nam Melogue, whose monocular facial 'netspex' (head mounted display unit built into sunglasses) let him access the viewpoints of security cameras all over the city.