Serious undertakings

Australia, 1983

Film
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The film explores montage techniques with playful and complex effects. Through the film’s five separate segments, themes, images and sounds recur and clash in unexpected ways. The myths from Australian cultural history - of pioneers, mateship and rugged (male) individualism - are dismantled as created truths and manufactured history. Features Stephen Leeder, Marilyn Allen, Robert Alexander, Nicholas Enright.

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Credits

director

Helen Grace

producer

Erika Addis

production company

Stunned Mullett Productions

Duration

00:27:32:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1983

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