Loc­al artist, writer and intel­lec­tu­al Dav­id Cau­chi is giv­ing an address at the Film Archive on Sat­urday after­noon.

Dav­id is a right old char­ac­ter, and also the paint­er of one of my favour­ite works of art – entitled The fab four (Tas­man, Cook, Du Fresne, De Sur­ville) (above).

In his address Dav­id will dis­cuss the ori­gins of sci­ence-fic­tion in the avant-garde art move­ments of the early 20th cen­tury, and its emer­gence as a dom­in­ant theme in mass-pro­duced pulp fic­tion and film. On the top­ic of “legit­im­ate art­form” he explains “I mean that which exem­pli­fies the cul­ture, the place and time in which the art­work is made”. Also included in the talk are sev­er­al films from the Archive’s col­lec­tions.

Why Sci­ence Fic­tion is the only legit­im­ate art­form of the 20th cen­tury
FILM ARCHIVE
02 JUNE 2007, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
ENTRY BY KOHA