All That Is Solid
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.
54 mins
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.
Jill Holt
Editor
Jaems Grant
Director of Photography
Eric Gradman
Music
Zbigniew Friedrich
Editor
Lloyd Carrick
Sound
John Hughes
Director
Paul Davies
Writer
John Hughes
Writer