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MARINETTI (1969)

Experimental feature / Ubu Films / Colour film, 16mm / 01:19:30

Cinematography: David E. Perry

Composer: John Sangster

Director: Albie Thoms

Feature length avant-garde film. A tribute to the Italian futurist poet, Marinetti, and a record of the avant-garde art circles and alternative society groups in Sydney in the late 1960s. (National Library of Australia, Film Study Catalogue : 1984 supplement)

Thoms' film caused a minor sensation when premiered at the Rose Bay Wintergarden on ?????, with the press reporting that around half of the audience of around 2000 walked out during the screening.

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