What's behind the gaze?

What do I see in this archive and where does it take me? In these questions Mike I guess you've summed up the focus for the documentary. Right up front in the film there needs to be the setting up of these questions that the audience wants answered - just like you've been hooked in/intrigued I guess this is the position i need to place the audience in as well. To answer these questions and actually get to the 'meta narrative' of the film a little further digging is required so I can't give it to you right off. Hand me a shovel, a pen and some A4 lined paper and we'll see where we go.

Thanks for your comments David (DM). I should introduce this 3rd voice commenting occasionally - David spent 4 or 5 years living in the UB, has become the most wonderful of friends and has had to trawl through his past life as a communard as I've been on this journey of discovery. He's a great collector of things and is a major contributor to the UB archive I've been using. Interestingly he was one of many interviewed for the ABC doco and was not included in the final production ... probably due to the fact that he didn't find his UB experience mentally disturbing and has no dusty old bones to pick with SC. His story was far too positive for the vision of the film. Contentment doesn't make for good story.

Anyway, back to me :o) ... and to the blog - Yes, DM, I consider this film as a kind of alchemy; the bringing together of elements that have been brewing.  It will bring my own personal response (although won't be outwardly stated) to the ABC film and serve to close my UB journey and allow me to move on to whatever comes next!!! Can't wait!

Stay tuned ... next posting I'll flesh out my theory and passion for the Flow of Documentary ...