SENSES OF CINEMA
Senses of Cinema charts the rise, fall and afterlife of the Filmmakers’ Co-operatives, the passionate individuals who moved through them, and the powerfully independent films they made.
The rise and fall of the Filmmakers’ Co-operatives is a lively, untold story of late 20th century Australia that links social movements of the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s with an ‘underground’ cinema that fostered alternative filmmaking enterprise in production, distribution and exhibition. An extraordinary diversity of creative ambition converged with a ground swell of social change, as the Co-ops became a forum and a vehicle for ‘minority’ voices denied expression in mainstream media.