AS part of the National Film and Sound Archive’s retrospective season of the work of the Smart Street Films production house, veteran Australian filmmaker and Smart Streetco-founder, Haydn Keenan will be a guest of the National Film and Sound Archive Canberra today Thursday, August 30, from 6pm.
“Persons of Interest” is scheduled for screening on SBS TV later in 2012. Keenan will offer a sneak preview of two episodes from the series, where each week a “Person of Interest” will be presented with their own previously secret ASIO file.
It unfolds the story of Australia’s secret history and includes some of the 1000s of hours of 16mm surveillances film footage ASIO shot over many decades, described by Keenan as “…a scandalous kind of history which explains how things really happened.”
In his view, “the very essence of surveillance is the secret theft of the image. It’s this secret element that adds a thrill for the viewer. There’s an element of voyeurism.”
The other documentary, the rarely seen “Christina Stead,” was one of a number of production companies contracted by the Australia Council, to film oral histories with leading Australian writers and artists. It is believed to be the only filmed interview that novelist Christina Stead ever gave.
Documentaries by Haydn Keenan, at the National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton, Thursday, August 30. 6pm, “Christina Stead.” 7.30pm “Persons of Interest.” 6pm FREE; 7.30pm $11/$9. Bookings essential to 6248 2000 or at the NFSA box office, admission is only to those 18 years old or more.
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