The simplest ideas are the best.
From the rawest of raw materials something wonderful has been fashioned.
The sequencing of images is hypnotic.
The music is highly evocative and not intrusive, working away quietly to stitch the footage together and give shape to the material..
This film (is it a doco? is it a tone poem?) is clearly a labour of love. But it's also immensely skillful and discerning in its construction.
It seems to have arrived with little in the way of fanfare on the ABC and I'm sure will get gradual rotation over the years as it will not age. But what a great transformation of a host inchoate archival material. Material we are so lucky to have as a consequence of a long period of effort by the ABC, Film Australia, other organisations and a large number of individuals.
All hail to the makers, backers and the ABC.
From the rawest of raw materials something wonderful has been fashioned.
The sequencing of images is hypnotic.
The music is highly evocative and not intrusive, working away quietly to stitch the footage together and give shape to the material..
This film (is it a doco? is it a tone poem?) is clearly a labour of love. But it's also immensely skillful and discerning in its construction.
It seems to have arrived with little in the way of fanfare on the ABC and I'm sure will get gradual rotation over the years as it will not age. But what a great transformation of a host inchoate archival material. Material we are so lucky to have as a consequence of a long period of effort by the ABC, Film Australia, other organisations and a large number of individuals.
All hail to the makers, backers and the ABC.
