{"identifier":"JH-Short_6311366649112","browse_author":"John Hughes (Director) and John Hughes, Early Works (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350899131,"description":"Six short films directed by Australian documentary filmmaker John Hughes. Nowhere Game, 24 mins, 1971 / Cybernetik Synergy: The Kinetic Art of John Hansen, 19 mins, 1974 / November Eleven, 18 mins, 1979 / Is It Working? George Seelaf for the Record, 48 mins, 1985 / Howard's History, 5 mins, 2004 / Howard's Blemish, 5 mins, 2004 Part 1 \n Nowhere Game -- A \u2018cinema verite\u2019 account of illicit drug use in Melbourne\u2019s inner city; a critical response to the dominant media sensationalism of the early 1970s, advocating that illicit drug be approached as a health issue rather than as crime. Made in collaboration with the Rod Patterson of the Buoyancy Foundation in Melbourne, and journalist Martin Goddard. \n Cybernetic Synergy: The Kinetic Art of John Hansen\u2013 The film explores some of John Hansen\u2019s early moving image electronic art and kinetic sculpture. The second part of the film performs Hansen\u2019s remarkable \u2018psychedelic\u2019, kinetic abstractions. \n November Eleven\u2013 The first in a series of three \u2018video art\u2019 and installation projects (1979-1984) made in collaboration with visual artist Peter Kennedy. The series was made in the aftermath of Australia\u2019s \u2018constitutional coup\u2019, when on November 11, 1975 the Whitlam Labor government was dismissed by the Governor General, Sir John Kerr. The video deploys found materials (dada-like) from radio and television from this moment, in a form later known as \u2018scratch video\u2019, to evoke an oppositional polemic from the ephemeral detritus of broadcasting. (Video: John Hughes, Andrew Scollo, Audio: John Scott, Robert Moore.) Part 2 \n Is It Working? George Seelaf for the Record \u2013 Meat Worker\u2019s Union executive George Seelaf was an inspired and tireless advocate for the development of arts and cultural activities within the labour movement. This 'archival' film for the Australia Council explores aspects of his contribution, providing an \u2018index to sources\u2019 and an implicit commentary on film biography. Howard\u2019s History - \"Questions here at stake are bigger than the small hearts that have concocted the ten point scam\" Noel Pearson, Reconciliation Convention, May 2004. Noel Pearson's compelling deconstruction of John Howard's narrow view of Australian history is startlingly clear in speeches during the Reconciliation Convention in Melbourne in 1997. Howard\u2019s Blemish - When John Howard famously 'lost it' during his speech formally opening the Reconciliation Conference in Melbourne in May 1997, and audiences turned their backs as he spoke, he used the word 'blemish' to describe the significance of Indigenous dispossession and frontier violence in colonial Australia. With the help of Judith Brett, Howard's Blemish speculates on what is at stake in the Prime Minister's choice of words. Cast: Paul Davies, Carolyn Howard, Gwenda Wiseman. Director: John Hughes 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). 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