{"identifier":"JH-Archive_6311367923112","browse_author":"John Hughes (Director) and John Hughes, Early Works (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350899032,"description":"The Archive Box provides an in-depth encounter with the stories, sources and contexts of Melbourne\u2019s Realist film movement, including the feature documentary The Archive Project. Part 1: The Archive Project feature documentary (96 mins, 2006) \n The Archive Project examines the work a small group of dedicated film enthusiasts active in Australia in the early Cold War years. The Melbourne Realist Film Unit forged an Australian response to threats to freedom of speech and sought social justice through an engagement with European and American documentary, feature and avant-garde cinema. Their enterprise and creative ambition was not welcomed by governments of the day. In their body of work \u2013 their films and equally importantly their exhibition practices \u2013 lays an important foundation of Australia\u2019s contemporary independent film culture. Their story is told through the first person account of a filmmaker today, digging through archives. Part 2: The Realist Film Unit\u2019s films (52 mins 1946) This disc contains the surviving films of the Melbourne Realist Film Unit in full. The films are enhanced with options for commentary tracks and alternative sound tracks. A menu section entitled New Theatre Performances includes introductions that cite contemporary reviews. There is also a text based 'index' providing supplementary documentation. Part 3: Supplementary oral history extras (with info booklet) The main feature of this disk is its illustrated oral histories. Oral Histories on the New Theatre, the Melbourne Realists, the Australian National Film Board, ASIO and blacklisting, and the Margaret Walker Dance Group. Margaret Walker, 5 minutes, 48 seconds Philip Adams, 9 minutes, 30 seconds Richard (Dick) Mason, 6 minutes, 20 seconds Dot Thompson, 5 minutes, 18 seconds Don Munroe, 5 minutes, 20 seconds The film also contains seven caches of photographs and a text based selection from Realist Film Association publications. Director: John Hughes Producers: Philippa Campey, John Hughes Feature editor / co-director: Uri Mizrahi A+T272fter effects and animated menus: Tim Patterson John Hughes is one of Australia\u2019s most respected documentary (and drama) film directors, his work having won many awards. The films are usually Australian in orientation, examining art, cultural politics and history. The work is often intensely research driven; the films are serious investigations into their material. also they have cinematic creative flair. His credits are numerous, starting in the early \u201870s with short films such as Nowhere Game, through to acclaimed documentaries in the \u201880s such as Film-Work, to the narrative feature What I Have Writtenin the \u201890s, and onto the recent award-winning documentaries The Archive Project (2006) and Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens In Australia (2009). Hughes was honored with Film Australia\u2019s coveted Stanley Hawes Award, for Achievement In Documentary in 2006, and the inaugural Joan Long Award from the Australian and New Zealand Film History Association (2006). Language - English","videoId":6311367923112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"The Archive Box / Archive Project","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"JH-Archive","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/d9c0a65b-0fe1-45aa-b447-da5b4b4aa5d6/34672b1c-c5f7-4d86-bce9-c009dff9fca5/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_australianIndependentFilmmakersSeriesJohnHughes","facets":"documentaryFilm , Documentary film , worldCinema , World cinema , politicalHistory , Political history , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , history , History , schoolsMovementsAndStyles , Schools, movements and styles , societyAndSocietalIssues , Society and societal issues , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , australia , Australia , oceania , Oceania , origin_australia , Australia , origin_oceania , Oceania , video , Video , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature ,","contenttypeorder":3,"series":"Australian Independent Filmmakers series (John Hughes)","date_of_publication":2006,"publisher":"John Hughes, Early Works","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"JH-Archive","facet":["artsAndLiterature","australia","documentaryFilm","english","filmAndCinema","history","made_20002009","made_2000Present","oceania","origin_australia","origin_oceania","politicalHistory","schoolsMovementsAndStyles","societyAndSocietalIssues","video","worldCinema"],"contentType":"video","authors":"John Hughes~John Hughes, Early Works"}