All That Is Solid

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All That Is Solid

Release Date: April 30, 1988

Year	:	1988
Slogan	:	«The present is characterized by the absence of shared visions of the future. While circulation of commodities and technology appear to command universal claims to meaning and dominance, fragmentation, diversity and difference occupy the foreground.»
Genres	:	Documentary
Production Companies	:	Australian Film Commission, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Director	:	John Hughes
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Writers	:	Paul Davies, John Hughes
RunTime	:	54 mins.

Partly funded as a Bicentennial commission through the University of Queensland Art Museum and the ABC, Hughes’ speculative, essayistic documentary is an examination of the future of Australia in light of the processes of post-industrialisation, Walter Benjamin’s ruinous “angel of history” and Marx’s quixotic vision of modernity.