Australian cinema online in a big way
With a long history of government subsidization of filmmaking in Australia - from drama to documentary- there has over many years amassed several large repositories of moving archives that the contain countless works exporing Australian character, environment, culture and sociology. But of course locked up in a vault isnt much good to anyway. Fortunately it seems several of the key film funding and development bodies have embraced the glories of digital distribution.
Australian Screen not only presents a huge diversity of films with exceprts for online viewing but also provides detailed curated analysis and education based resources. The real coup with this site is the vast array of high profile filmmakers who've gladly made parts of their filsm freely availible on the site.
Film Australia, long the dedciated documentary arm of Australian Filmmaking to create moving image media that explores what it is to be Australian, have likwise unlocked their library and provided a massive archive of watchable and even fully downloadable films.
Following suite is also the FA developed
From Wireless to Web which provides a more structured journey through the history of broadcast media in Australia with an extensive array of educational materials and streamig media content.
All three of these sites are an embidiment of what the internet can be and should make for compulsive viewing for any aspiring filmmaker wishing to develop a grounded sense of local cinematic history and engagement of outstanding works in a highly accesible way.
Posted at 01:00AM Jul 12, 2007
by Mike Jones in video |
