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Author John Hughes

John Hughes

John Hughes – a writer, director and producer of documentary and drama for film, television and online – has an ongoing fascination with the interventions of groundbreaking filmmakers in Australian documentary. Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia completes a film trilogy with Film-Work (1981) and The Archive Project (2006).

The Russian Doll and Skripov the Spy: ASIO’s Legal Resident (1963) and Peter Butt’s Final Rendezvous (2020)

John Hughes
April 2020
Feature Articles
Within the archive meaning exists in a state that is both residual and potential. The suggestion of past uses coexists with a plentitude of possibilities. Unpacking Peter Butt’s film Final Rendezvous (2020) a...

Australia Daze (Pat Fiske, 1988): Questioning Nationhood

John Hughes
October 2018
CTEQ Annotations on Film
“Centenaries are strange institutions often with complex purposes (sometimes) wonderfully simple minded.” – C. J. Clarke “This 80-minute comedy – well it is funny most of the time – is an entertaining and a...

Tom Zubrycki’s Amongst Equals (1986-1991): A Perennial Work in Progress

John Hughes
October 2018
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Amongst Equals has never been released, and while several iterations found their way to the screen in the early 1990s, the film has yet to be completed. Instead, wrecked and stranded on a reef of competing impe...
Australian filmmakers

A Work in Progress: the Rise and Fall of Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives, 1966–86

John Hughes
December 2015
Australian Film History
Film co-ops were born out of necessity – both economic and political. During the 1960s and 1970s, avant-garde and experimental cinema, “expanded cinema” and varying strands of independent filmmaking sought to g...

Still Life, Slow Cinema: My Life without Steve

John Hughes
April 2015
CTEQ Annotations on Film
An essay film, staged as a short drama deploying a first person, diary film narration over exquisitely designed object oriented “still life” tableaus, Gillian Leahy’s My Life Without Steve (1986) was a sensatio...
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Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia

John Hughes
July 2009
MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers
The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia, revisits the making of the 22-minute, 1946 documentary ...

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