RealTime E-dition 16 August 2017

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This week in our Arts Education & Training Feature we take you into the postgraduate screen-world with an in-depth look at the Australian Film Television and Radio School's new Masters Degree programs. A recent graduate, writer-director Brendon McDonall, has gone on to win prizes and awards in the UK (for All God's Creatures, see it here) and the US for The Dam (about two elderly men visiting the site that defined their young lives; image above) which he wrote and directed at AFTRS for his degree. And there's much more screen art this week: Martin Walch and David Stephenson's The Derwent; a 1994 interview from our Deep Archive with Philip Brophy about his hilariously provocative feature Body Melt; a review that applauds A Flickering Truth (this week's DVD Giveaway) with its account of the recovery in Afghanistan of many films thought lost to war and terror; and a hard but forgiving look at Jane Campion's Top of the Lake: China Girl. Keith & Virginia

BEAUTY CONCEALING VIOLENCE With its feminist focus on a dynamic group of women, the new season of Top of the Lake takes Eloise Ross beneath Sydney’s shiny exterior into a murky world of sex workers, illegal surrogacy and missing girls.

AFTRS: POSTGRAD RESEARCH AS PRACTICE
MA Screen Course Leader Nell Greenwood tells RealTime about AFTRS postgraduate programs that intimately and intensively challenge filmmakers to envision, reflect, develop new skills and make substantial works.

RE-ENVISIONING A RIVER A conglomerate of video art, IT creativity and archival materials, Martin Walch and David Stephenson's The Derwent fascinates Andrew Harper with the immersive totality of its vision.

BODIES OF OUR TIME John Bailey sees ADT's "hugely physical" Be Your Self as "both intensely material and quietly abstracted," while in Arena Theatre's "visually lavish" Trapper, "the movement is slow and measured, conceptually proceeding with just as much deliberation."

MOUNTAIN IN CONCERT Steve Dow embraces the screen-stage synthesis of Jennifer Peedom's spectacular mountain footage and the Australian Chamber Orchestra's live score and ponders its potential for diversifying audiences.

THE FORGOTTEN RESURRECTED An ABC iView documentary about Jonathan Jones’ public artwork Barrangal Dyara faithfully relates the artist’s conciliatory account of cultural losses wrought by the 1882 Garden Palace fire.

CINEMATIC SPIRIT With Afghanistan’s future on a precipice, a group of men come together to rescue thousands of hours of film footage in this 2015, New Zealand-made documentary, now on DVD, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

SYDNEY CHAMBER OPERA'S LUCRETIA
Jack Symonds reveals how SCO is radically addressing gender, religious and formal challenges in Benjamin Britten's searing opera The Rape of Lucretia.

BODY MELT:
ACTING DEGREE ZERO
From The Deep Archive, in 1994 John O'Neill interviews an incisively funny Philip Brophy about the casting of his anti-realist feature film Body Melt with soapie, advertisement and cop show actors.

GIVEAWAY DVD:
A FLICKERING TRUTH
An engrossing documentary about the unearthing of 8,000 hours of film, hidden from the Taliban, and now revealing Afghanistan’s rich cinematic and cultural history.

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