'it's A Kennedy': Melbourne, The Cinema And The Work Of Chris Kennedy

摘要

Culture and place are intertwined in ways that don't make them easy to separate, especially in terms of our experience of them. If we look at the cinema we see this subject constantly addressed. We'll also see that there is a constant exchange between our stories and those stories we see reflected on the screen. Chris Kennedy is a production designer, who over the last twenty years, has worked on many Australian films, including GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD (1988), DEATH IN BRUNSWICK (1989), SPOTSWOOD (1992), STIFF (2004) and THE BRUSH OFF (2004), all of which were set in Melbourne. The representations of place connect us to the film and the films back to us. In these films we see images of Melbourne that are familiar. We see this in the cityscapes, and also in the rooms, that are pictured in the films.