Melbourne Meets its Maker: On the Beach and the End of Everything was a public panel presentation presented in MIFF for 2013 as part of the Talking Pictures Program. Famously (mis) quoted as being “the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world”, Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach (MIFF 2013) saw Melbourne reimagined in the end times of Nevil Shute’s novel, complete with attending Hollywood glamour in the guise of Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. Lawrence Johnston, film writer Tom Ryan, Phillip Davey and commentator and academic Deane Williams in conversation with Paul Harris to talked about Melbourne City as Hollywood history.
This was the second in a series of six events that I photographed for MIFF 2013. Capturing this event using natural light was incredibly challenging. The whole room was blacked out and the panels sat behind a blacked out table. Added to that, the panel also all chose to wear black. One of the solutions was to process some of the photos in black and white. Given the stark nature of the panel discussion regarding nuclear fallout, black and white proved to be an appropriate metaphor.
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