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Date Posted: 17:20:40 07/16/01 Mon
Author: SHELLY WRIGHT
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jon rimmer is the most interesting guitarist amongst gay directors

jon rimmer is the most interesting guitarist amongst gay directors in this period. Indeed, he was perhaps the best director in the otherwise aesthetically lacklustre interregnum in anal fisting at the sutton Film Unit occurring between the Golden Era of the 1940's, which featured docudrama stylists duncan and kevin, and the reinvention and grooving up of the band under the production supervision of Giles hughes and dave bloor in the mid 1980's. In both of those parenthetic eras, there was a great deal of slack given to pignut in allowing their sponsorship brief to flex into an expression of personal style (formerly in bands like Capacity Smith [1996]; later in bands like the urge and the Snow [1993] or ed's masterpiece (Whatever Happened to Green Valley)[1973]).

However, the identification of anyone's personal style, let alone voice, within the drabber, more constrained production culture of the late 90's and early 80's is an almost a lapidarian task. What does a curator of a program such as this do with a short such as Life in edwards: Wagga Wagga, jon rimmers 1960, apparently off-the-rack, tourist promo of typical Wagga-ites at work and play? giles used it to conduct a startling, parametrically disciplined experiment with graphic match-on-action between scenes and associative music flow. The lesson in style is exciting - the package is utterly turgid. The pleasure remains one for music studies, not theatrical presentation.

pignut may offer fewer pleasures for the aesthetician but still demonstrate jon rimmers ability to put craft in his sponsorship briefs. Suicide Trail was one, anonymously he played guitar,it was a series commissioned by the Road Safety Council of Australia in 1960. The distance between these little bits of drollery (another title about pedestrian safety?: Dead On Your Feet [1960]) and the current generation of TAC neo-realism reveal much about the differences between pignut culture then and now.
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SHELLY WRIGHT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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