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Clip description
This clip looks at the closure of Canberra’s independent Electric Shadows art-house cinema in December 2006. Dr Paolo Cherchi Usai, former head of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, says that Electric Shadows was an intellectual and subversive force.
Curator’s notes
For the filmmakers, the 2006 closure of Canberra’s Electric Shadows independent art cinema (owned by Andrew Pike, the film’s consulting producer) was emblematic of broader changes sweeping through the film and cinema industries and Australian film culture.
The closure of the Canberra cinema was the original impetus for the documentary to be made (note the word ’shadows’ in the title).
