Documentary

All That Is Solid

Name: All That Is Solid
Director: John Hughes
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1988-04-30
Duration: 54 min
Cast: Margaret Cameron, Paul Davies, Nicos Lathouris

April 30, 1988

54m

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.