The Worst Film Industry in the World
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2023
- This is my video essay on exploring what is happening with the decline in Australian cinema today - which wasn’t always the case. Because while Hollywood may be the home to movies, in the 1970s, Australia was the home of bold cinema.
The films released in that decade spawned the birth of what was called the Australian New Wave and it led to even bigger things later like Crocodile Dundee, Muriel’s Wedding, and the Castle. For a country that gave birth to the first movie ever made, this was a period when Australian filmmakers were hitting nothing but net.
But since the dawn of the new millennia, something changed. Ever since the 2000s, the Australian film industry has seen a steep decline at the box office and it feels like the period of great Australian movies of the past, no longer seems to be a thing of the present.
So, what could explain the sharp decline? This is my video exploring that question.
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What is Australian Cinema?
The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received international recognition. Many actors and filmmakers with international reputations started their careers in Australian films, and many of these have established lucrative careers in larger film-producing centres such as the United States.
Commercially successful Australian films include: Crocodile Dundee, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, and Chris Noonan's Babe. Award-winning productions include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Tracker, Shine and Ten Canoes.
The canon of films related to Indigenous Australians also increased over the period of the 1990s and early 21st Century, with Nick Parsons' 1996 film Dead Heart featuring Ernie Dingo and Bryan Brown; Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, starring Gary Sweet and David Gulpilil; and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence in 2002. In 2006, Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes became the first major feature film to be shot in an Indigenous language and the film was recognised at Cannes and elsewhere.
Lantana, directed by Ray Lawrence attained critical and commercial success in 2001 for its examination of a complex series of relationships in suburban Sydney, and events surrounding a mysterious crime. It won seven AFI Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Anthony LaPaglia and Best Actress for Kerry Armstrong.
In 2008 following Ledger's death, the documentary film celebrating the romps of the Australian New Wave of 1970s and 1980s low-budget cinema: Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! The film was directed by Mark Hartley and interviews filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Hopper, George Miller and Barry Humphries.
Sally Riley, as inaugural head of the Indigenous department at ABC Television, after her previous role at the Australian Film Commission (later Screen Australia), has done much to develop Indigenous talent in the film and television industry. Contemporary Indigenous film-makers include Warwick Thornton, Wayne Blair, Trisha Morton-Thomas and Rachel Perkins.
The Australian film industry continues to produce a reasonable number of films each year, but in common with other English-speaking countries, Australia has often found it difficult to compete with the American film industry, the latter helped by having a much larger home market. The most successful Australian actors and filmmakers are easily lured by Hollywood and rarely return to the domestic film industry. The South Australian Film Corporation continues to produce quality films, and Adelaide has been chosen as the location for films such as Hotel Mumbai.
And if you’re still reading this - hello.
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Your closing clip made this old, straight, white, Aussie male cry. "Priscilla' was a most brilliant movie!
I wouldn't say that I have seen a great deal of Australian films, but Jennifer Kent an Australian director is one of my favourite horror filmmaker of our generation, Babadook is a modern classic and The Nightingale is an extremely underrated and heartwrenching but a must-watch thriller title
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One Australian movie that I always think of to this day is Japanese Story from 2003. What could be seen as a "Safe" film breaks that mold and really showcases how amazing Australian filmmaking can be. Experiences you can never forget.
With the amount of production quality on RUclips I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before we have a renaisance of sorts where groups of young Aussie filmmakers decide Screen Australia can ⨍υׁׅᝯׁƙׁׅ֑ off with their mainstream nonsense for funding and do it themselves. Just my opinion, but lately I've been seeing really small channels with quality that blows me away.
Yes something needs to overtake that top spot, we need more things to stop playing it safe and being restricted. But even so there are a lot of recent Aussie movies I love, some have been getting bigger (I don’t mean box office). I’m very advocate for our industry because this is the best place in the world to make movies. It’s great that our industry has boomed in the last few years with the government’s care package and the help of Hollywood of course. I think Luke Sparke is the director that Australia needs, he’s pushing the boundaries of what our movies can do without getting funding from the government.
This was so well presented my dude! D-D-D-D-Doom city
Since 2000s They are usually low budget and boring. Our tastes change also. You might get one Aussie made film that kicks the sand but rest are just Hollywood films made in oz.
Brain drain has also a lot to do on why Australian cinema never reached the heights of even countries with smaller populatuion like Taiwan. Many of Aussie talents fled to Hollywood. If you actually look at Australian movies that do succeed to mainstream success,many of them are co produced by American such as Elvis,Lion,Farscape.Hence proven my point that Aussie talents fled to US is why this industry is not as big as it is elsewhere
To me Australian film, tv shows et al tend to look more expensive than they actually are. When productions want to save on cost, they probably film things there. If that’s true, I don’t know why
Australian film producers and distributors have bludgeoned audiences so many times at this point, that it seems unlikely that people will even see "risky" Australian films. I get it, if you went to see your first Australian film or hadn't seen one in a while and you saw Jasper Jones, Odd Ball, Rams or Paper Planes, you would probably never chance an Australian film again. It is a shame, Australian filmmakers are full of talent and creativity and if given the chance, they can make incredible films.
indian cinema also went through this in like 2008 - 2016 period and somehow managed to survive this stage and bled alot of creativity
You’ve got to be careful when drawing from McKenzie and Walls. It’s based on 20 films distributed by Studios.
Brazil has a similar problem. The difference is that government funding is easier (still complex) but filmmakers spend more time studying incentive laws than the art opf fiilm
Mexican cinema also went to this back in the late 1970s to late 1980s due of lack of government funding, and again recently in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
Very nice video
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it's annoying, coming from a Film Student we are being taught about commercial viability being a key aspect in pitching, while yes commercial viability is important in some way its hindered our ability to tell stories again, it's almost like a repeat before the new wave where the films that we as australians got and went to see where american and now again the majority of our films we go to see are american, at some point we need to stop funding holliwood productions and make something of our own again.
Have you seen the rover? Brilliant recent Aussie movie
This video essay was great, As someone currently wrapping up diploma course of film and television at uni, I can't agree more with everything your saying. I want to take risks and have the creative freedom i deserve, I hate my government