Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One. Daryl Dellora. 1985. Fiction, Documentary.

Описание: Format: 16mm / Sound: Mono / Aspect Ratio: 16:9

This inventive and intriguing part documentary, part fiction film, investigates the literary style and suspicious death of fictional communist author, Ross Franklin, whilst also providing an intriguing portrait of his ‘associate’, Australian author, Frank Hardy.

‘Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One’ employs modernist techniques of intermeshing conventional documentary materials such as interview, archival footage, and dramatisation, with scenarios and claims that are fictional, but which nevertheless illuminate the film’s historical and literary themes. Whilst utilising a documentary style consistent with developments in the genre at that time, the film’s approach also derives from the modernist and reflexive literary style and concerns of its central subject, author Frank Hardy, who refers in one sequence to, “the limbo world between empirical and imaginative truth”.
The film includes a sequence at a VFL football match between Carlton and Fitzroy. In the final sequence, filmed on the roof of a Hoddle Street Housing Commission tower, and affording an expansive view over Collingwood, Hardy lambasts iconic Australian literary figure Dame Leonie Kramer, and applauds Henry Lawson.

The student filmmaker Daryl Dellora, subsequently went on to make many significant documentary films on Australian history including ‘Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator’, a biography of High Court Justice Lionel Murphy, for which Dellora was conferred the Australian Human Rights Award. Dellora also made the acclaimed documentary ‘The Edge of the Possible’ about Sydney Opera House architect, Jorn Utzon.

To find out more about the filmmaker visit:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217516/

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