The present is characterized by the absence of shared visions of the future. While circulation of commodities and technology appear to command universal claims to meaning and dominance, fragmentation, diversity and difference occupy the foreground.
Partly funded as a Bicentennial commission through the University of Queensland Art Museum and the ABC, Hughes’ speculative, essayistic documentary is an examination of the future of Australia in light of the processes of post-industrialisation, Walter Benjamin’s ruinous “angel of history” and Marx’s quixotic vision of modernity.
John Hughes
Director, Writer
Paul Davies
Writer
McQueen74%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sherman's March67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Naqoyqatsi61%
Night Will Fall76%
Being James Bond77%
The Velvet Underground67%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Fuck64%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Sidney70%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Baraka82%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Tabloid64%
Above Majestic73%
