ARTICLES
From Video to Film and Back Again
In 1995 I thought I was one of the few people in Australia left working in this observationally-driven style, but then suddenly a year later the DV camcorder revolution arrived. For the first time images generated by this low-format technology were deemed acceptable by broadcasters. Verite and personal essay styles were being seriously discussed again.
WATERLOO - A Film by Tom Zubrycki
Waterloo, the suburb, has a remarkable history. One of Sydney's oldest residential areas, home of the Eveleigh rail workshops which, for a long time, housed a huge workforce' under one roof, Waterloo was a significant area in the development of the labour movement and the Labor party in N.S.W. More recently it has been the scene of a bitter and drawn out struggle by the residents to save their suburb from slum clearance and redevelopment by the Housing Commission