ABC TV to screen David Bradbury’s film about Paul Cox, and later a film on Vietnam War
Bradbury has also been busy travelling and filming in recent years, visiting India and Iraq to explore the dangers associated with those countries’ nuclear industries and the effects on the health of civilians there of exported Australian uranium.
“Depleted uranium is the new agent orange of the 21st century,” Bradbury explains, after describing his experiences filming deformed babies in a hospital in Iraq.
Bradbury turns the camera on filmmaker with cancer, http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/black-comedy-latest-offering/1908586/ Jamie Brown 15th Jun 2013 MULLUMBIMBY documentary filmmaker David Bradbury’s latest offering for television departs from his usual interest in war and the threat of uranium to focus on something closer to the heart of humanity.
ABC 1 will screen On Borrowed Time, Sunday at 9.45pm.
The film is a gentle portrait of filmmaker Paul Cox as he faces his own mortality as a result of liver cancer.
Cox is arguably one of the most important filmmakers to come out of this country, and certainly one of the most prolific, having created 18 feature films, 14 shorts, 11 documentaries and four made-for television productions. Man of Flowers (1983), My First Wife (1984), Exile (1994), Innocence (2000) and Human Touch (2004) are among his list of art-house films. Although the film screens on television for the first time tomorrow, Bradbury finished filming two-and-a-half years ago and has since produced a black comedy, When the Dust Settles, for the Electrical Trades Union.
Shot in the Mullumbimby home of local comedian Mandy Nolan, who plays a leading role alongside fellow comedian Austen Tayshus, the film seeks to promote the dangers of working in Australia’s uranium mining industry.
Funded by the ETU for its members, Bradbury’s creation is a lot closer to his heart, with much of his life’s work focusing on the dangers of radiation.
That interest was piqued in 1981 when he travelled to Hiroshima with war correspondent Wilfred Burchett.
In the making of that film, Public Enemy Number One, Burchett relived the atrocities he witnessed as the first Westerner to travel to the bomb-struck city that closed the war in the Pacific and heralded the birth of a new menace.
Bradbury has also been busy travelling and filming in recent years, visiting India and Iraq to explore the dangers associated with those countries’ nuclear industries and the effects on the health of civilians there of exported Australian uranium.
“Depleted uranium is the new agent orange of the 21st century,” Bradbury explains, after describing his experiences filming deformed babies in a hospital in Iraq.
Bradbury’s next project, recently funded by the ABC, will feature a re-enactment of the biggest battle of the Vietnam War – the battle of Coral and Balmoral that persisted for three weeks. http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/black-comedy-latest-offering/1908586/
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