TOTEM & ORE

Screening Schedule

Nov 24 (Sun.) 14:30 at Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-visual Library

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Details

ⒸPhotographer Janice Macmillan & Director own the copyright of the images

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A feature documentary about the effects of Nuclear weapons & testing. In Australia: the tragedy of uranium exploration, mining and British atomic testing in 1950’s Aboriginal Australia. Starting in 1945 with the Hiroshima bomb and ending at the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. The historic tragedies and fear told by atomic bomb witnesses, anti-nuclear activists, filmmakers, artists, actors, writers composers, doctors, professors....Aboriginal Actress, Ursula Yovich reflects on her visit to Hiroshima, her appeal that there is  “No place in the world for Nuclear weapons!”

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Cast:Ursula Yovich, Australian actress
Director:John Mandelberg
Script:
Producer:John Mandelberg

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Year of production: 2019
Running time: 97 mins 37 secs’
Country:New Zealand/Australia

Director

JOHN MANDELBERG
John Mandelberg - DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER, EDITOR John is an Australian Filmmaker and academic who lives in New Zealand. After working in the Australian film & television Industry for 30 years, John moved to Hamilton, New Zealand to take up an Academic tutor’s role teaching Film Production on a Media Arts Degree programme, tutoring Undergraduate and Post Graduate students.
His award-winning documentary films have been seen all over the world and he focuses on human stories that include ‘WATANI HABIBI, My Beloved Homeland ‘(NZ 2007-13) about Palestinian Protest music; 'YANIV SAVES THE WORLD' (NZ, 2012) A tale of a high school student and autistic artist, who develops an international following for his eco-themed artwork.
LEWIS MORLEY, Photographer (Australia 2003, 2013) two documentary portraits of Morley's photography and his career documenting the 'swinging sixties' in London, and how he changed the way Theatre was photographed. 'A DOUBLE LIFE' (Australia,1996) about a Serbian writer who emigrates to Australia in the early 1960's, and became a controversial writer of fiction about Aboriginal life and the class of cultures. Many of John's more recent films focus on the artists, musicians, photographers, authors a etc.