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"Movie
All That Is Solid
NR 54 minDocumentary
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 postindustrialisation Walter Benjamins ruinous angel of history and Marxs quixotic vision of modernity
DirectorJohn Hughes
WritersPaul DaviesJohn Hughes