Head South + The Cats of Gokugo Shrine

27/03/2025 54 min
Head South + The Cats of Gokugo Shrine

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Director Jonathan Ogilvie discusses his nostalgic coming-of-age film Head South, where it's the late 1970's and teenager Angus is discovering the underground post-punk music scene in Christchurch. From the archives, David Nichols, historian and lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, on Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space, a story takes place during the late 70s to the early 80s in the underground music scene in Melbourne and the action that happens in and around a share household in the inner city.In The Cats of Gokugo Shrine, renowned Japanese documentarian Kazuhiro Soda takes us to the coastal town of Ushimado and a shrine where cats have taken up residence.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Matthew CrawfordExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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