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‘What was unusual about this film I think is that I tried to see. I didn’t want to write a script I wanted to see it… There were certain given facts but the business of the script was to see them, to see if this world could exist’. - Jean-Luc Goddard. Scenario du film Passion. 1982

This project was born out of a need to make sense of the archive - to see more clearly. Yallourn is a 20th century story. A tribute to modernism and model living. A time capsule of optimism. The rise and rise of consumerism. The rise and fall of a community.

W/D Phil Burke. Sound Design Dean Linguey. Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission. © Phil Burke and Film Camp 2004

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