Exits

A personal reaction to the ironies implicit in Remembrance Day, 11 November, 1975. “Exits” is an experimental feature film, one of the first Australian features to merge documentary and enacted elements. The film looks at the effects of the Whitlam sacking on a handful of people wandering the streets, dumps, pubs and public transport of Melbourne. It uses a mixture of radio voice-overs, poems, telexes, headlines and press conferences to set a documentary background against which the growing anger and frustration (or indifference) of the characters can be measured. Rated: G

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Credits

co-director

Paul Davies

Pat Laughren

Carolyn Howard

Duration

00:47:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1981

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324731

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Australia - Politics and government

Experimental

History → History

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

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Australia, 1981