The re-enactment of the First Fleet from the United Kingdom to Australia and the arbitrary celebration of the two hundred years of British settlement becomes a catalyst to consider the issues of colonialism, cultural and national identity. This film looks at the construction of national identity and dissent around the Australian Bicentennial.
Notes
First Time Tragedy Second Time Farce was co-directed/produced/written by John Cumming, Jane Madsen, James Swinson. It was made with financial assistance from Film Victoria. It was screened at the Melbourne Fringe Festival (1989), Bristol Rio Cinema and Watermans Art Centre (by Amnesty International) in London (U.K. 1990), the Film and History Conference (Sydney, 1989) and broadcast by RTE TV (Ireland 1990). Held in the film collections of The Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islanders, Screensound Australia. Production company: Zero One, and Counter Productions. A Major Creative Exhibition of First Time Tragedy, Second Film Farce took the form of a touring exhibition of the film in the UK and Germany in the period 2008-10.
Language
eng
Indigenous content
on
Field of Research
190204 Film and Television
Socio Economic Objective
890402 Film and Video Services (excl. Animation and Computer Generated Imagery)
HERDC Research category
F Audio-visual recordings
ERA Research output type
JR1 Recorded or Rendered Creative Works - Film, Video
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