Mar 242009
Turns out Dr Garry Gillard, friend to this blog, has a chapter about art film in his Ten Types of Australian Film, available online.
Virtually every Australian film-maker chases a government subsidy, and to that end they write elaborate submissions. It would be interesting to compare how they describe their projects with the genres into which Garry places them. I have a hunch that many of the submissions would get the word ‘art’ in there somewhere, trading on the received view that art is good for you, like milk, and should be subsidised, like dairy farms. Then there’d be the ones that claim to be forging Australian Identity, which is something you get from watching movies.