Unclassified 15+

2024 / 70 mins / Australia / English / Music

Program Strand/s:

Australian Films

Music on Film

Restorations

Featuring music videos restored by Piccolo Films by the artists Black Sorrows, Renee Geyer, Machinations, Men at Work, Mental as Anything, Crowded House, Split Enz, Sharon O’Neill, Sunnyboys, Midnight Oil, Flotsam Jetsam, Swingers and others. There is also a documentary showing footage from several community radio stations in the early 1980s including 3CR and RRR FM including Stephen Walker doing a piece to camera.

As this program was mainly music videos there is not really that much to review about it, you just sit back and enjoy.

Featured videos as much as I could remember, the production company said some of the clips didn’t really have a title:

Community to Commercial documentary

Celibate Rifles

I need a friend – Sunnyboys

vSpy vSpy – One of a Kind

Mental as Anything – Don’t Tell Me Now

Renee Geyer – Say I love you

Machinations – Pressure Sway

Split Enz – Strait Old Line

Midnight Oil – Peter Garret at the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal

Flotsam Jetsam – 115 BPM

Sharon O’Neill – Maxine

The Black Sorrows – What a Difference a Day Makes

Crowded House – World Where You Live

Men At Work – Who can it be now?

Swingers – Counting the Beat

Q&A with Pauly P from RRR FM

Q – Have there been any unexepected challenges?

A – The “garage collection” as not all the original film was kept in archival conditions, was a lot kept in sheds that has degraded.

Q: How did you do the swinging room in the Crowded House clip?

A: It already existed, they just borrowed it.

Q: Where there any failed pitches?

A: They wouldn’t have still been working if the bands didn’t like their ideas

Q: vs Spy vs Spy video location?

A: Stockdon beach (the ship is no longer there)

Q: Will there be a Bluray/DVD release?

A: Too many rights issues at the moment. There was a Richard Lowenstein concert film that did not include Mental As Anything at all in it (detailed in their book).

Q: How did the Renee Geyer film clip come about?

A: This was actually the third try at a clip. Was shot at her manager’s house. Renee was enjoying throwing the food around and shoving it in Gudinski’s gob.

BONUS MUSIC VIDEOS

Swingers – Counting the Beat (1981)

Men At Work – Who can it be now? (1981)

Sunnyboys – I Need a Friend (1982)

The Black Sorrows – What a Difference a Day Makes (1982)

Renee Geyer – Say I love you (1982)

Sharon O’Neill – Maxine (1983)

Machinations – Pressure Sway (1983)

Split Enz – Strait Old Line (1983)

Flotsam Jetsam – 115 BPM (1984)

vSpy vSpy – One of a Kind (1984)

Crowded House – World Where You Live (1986)

Mental as Anything – Don’t Tell Me Now (1987)