A Long Road to the Small Screen
John Hughes and the Independent Film and Video Movement in Australia
Description:... John Hughes, a Melbourne-based independent filmmaker, has made over twenty films across four decades. With Nowhere Game (1971), he established a politically oppositional documentary practice. Hughes left school in his early teens but completed a Masters degree thirty years later, whilst making a film about Walter Benjamin, One Way Street (1992). He has taught at tertiary institutions and written for journal publications since the mid 1970s. After making What I Have Written (1995) and After Mabo (1997), Hughes became a commissioning editor at SBS Independent in 1998. He returned to speculative freelance work in 2002. Hughes has taken a leading role in a number of filmmaker organizations including the Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op, JAFS and IFAC. This thesis examines the specific notions of independent film and video that Hughes identified with and adapted across several historical phases.
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