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.
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.
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 30 April 1988
- Runtime
- 54m
Production
- Director
- John Hughes
- Writers
- Paul Davies, John Hughes
- Studios
- Australian Film Commission, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Countries
- Australia
Languages
- Original
- English