Paul Goldman

Paul Goldman (*?), An Aboriginal , is an Australian director and producer who has published socially critical films about the living conditions of the Aborigines and Australian life as well as numerous pieces of music and videos.

job

Paul Goldman studied at Melbourne's Swinburne Institute of Technology Film and Television School . Even as a student he was producing music videos. After graduating in 1980, he set up the music studio The Rich Kids . In his job, commuting between London and Los Angeles , he produced for both European and Anglo-American companies. He has now produced more than 200 music videos for, for example, Elvis Costello , Nick Cave , Kylie Minogue and MTV .

Movies

Australian Rules

His first film Australian Rules is Goldman's most successful to date; the world premiere took place in January 2002 at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the Adelaide Art Festival . Mark Lazarus, the film producer, calculated that the film would have little success and that it could reach a maximum of 10 screenings. He was all the more surprised that it was performed again and again in Australia and also internationally in English-speaking countries.

Paul Goldman's film debut is based on an autobiographical fact that appeared in Phillip Gwynne's novel Deadly, Unna? and which he dramatized on film. With this film he shows a social mirror image of today's Australia and the social structures between Aborigines and whites.

The film story takes place in a village setting, in the fictional village of Prospect Bay , but this village stands for the existing racism not only for Australia. Prospect Bay, is a poor fishing village in South Australia where the white 16-year-old Gary Black (Nathan Phillips), called Blacky, lives and is a member of the village football team . One of Blacky's best friends is the football player Dumby Red (Luke Carroll), an Aborigine. There the football-playing Aborigines experience the racist humiliation by the whites. The fisherman Bob Black (Simon Westaway), the aggressive and alcoholic father of Gary, is a racist who does not tolerate friendship with the Aboriginal boy and who rejects it massively. Gary falls in love with Dumby Clarence's sister (Lisa Flanagan).

When the half-Aboriginal team from Prospect Bay at a regional football tournament finally wins the final after 37 years of defeat, mainly through the use of the Aborigines, the racist tension explodes at the closing party and when Dumby Red is killed in the process, the village community falls apart. Blacky seeks a different perspective with Clarence.

The film shows a silent revolution against the ruling racism and does not end with the escalation in the film, but shows it in the middle of the film. It is not Goldman's intention to ostensibly prosecute, but to show that racism can only be minimized and eliminated through the politicization and commitment of all ethnic groups involved.

Suburban Mayhem

Katrina Skinner (Emily Barclay) is a 19 year old single mom who seduces men. She is the cliché of the bad girl who terrorizes her neighbors and friends, is lazy and self-centered and uses sex to manipulate men. After the death of her father (Robert Morgan), she loses her footing, her job and financial support. She neglects her child, who is taken away from her by social organizations. She loves her brother Danny (Laurenz Breuls), who commits murder while stealing and who is imprisoned for life. Only after these experiences does she find a way to herself, a life and to her child. This socially critical film shows the living conditions in Australian suburbs, in which the Australian youth grow up and how quickly they can get into social and personal difficulties.

In this drama, Mia Wasikowska plays the role of the young and innocent 16-year-old Lilya, who works as a manicurist in a beauty salon and is corrupted by Katrina and seduced into sex, drugs and violence. Her feature film debut earned Wasikowska the Australian Film Institute Prize , Australia's premier film award.

The Night We Called It A Day

This 2002 film is based on a true story from the 1974 tour of Australia that Frank Sinatra experienced. The rock promoter Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton) is looking for the business success that should give his life a turn and he accompanies Frank Sinatra through Australia. Bad luck haunts him and Sinatra ( Dennis Hopper ) is stuck on strike with no water, food, phone or fuel for his plane. The drama develops because Sinatra is not sociable.

Cannot Buy My Soul

The 2008 documentary of the best singers and songwriters took place over two nights at the Great State Theater in Sydney. It was a successful attempt to link the western and the "aboriginal" singing stations and the way of life through different singing traditions and experiences. The music and chants were about Christianity and the suffering and ceremonies of the Aborigines. Above all, the life stories of both ethnic groups were able to be experienced and experienced in a special way during the song performances.

swell

• www.wsws.org
• www.urbancinefile.com
• Works by Goldman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suburban Mayhem
2. ↑ The Night We Call It A Day ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Cannot Buy My Soul  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Paul Goldman in the Internet Movie Database (English)