{"identifier":"KG-Forest_6311368619112","browse_author":"Kit Guyatt (Director), Michael Wilding (Original Author), Kit Guyatt (Producer), Kit Guyatt (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video)) and Kit Guyatt (Screenplay by)","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350899797,"description":"1. President Johnson\u2019s Visit\n A film by Kit Guyatt and Christopher Cordeaux. A comment on U.S. President Lyndon Johnson\u2019s 1966 Australian tour, while Australian and American troops fought in Vietnam. 1967 16mm B&W 3 min. \n 2. Balmain\n \"An enquiry, at once lyrical and tragic, into the reality of (the inner Sydney suburb of) Balmain in 1969 \u2013 an historic, beautiful and ideally located residential suburb threatened with partial extinction by lack of government planning and foresight, and by indifference to residents\u2019 interests.\" Peter King, \u2018The Australian\u2019 1969 16mm B&W 26 min. \n 3. The Phallic Forest\n The story is about Oliver and Julia, he in advertising, she an academic, living in a terrace house which they\u2019re renovating, while at the same time their relationship is falling apart. He starts an affair with somebody else and she retreats further into a fantasy world whose sometimes bizarre images the film does its best to recreate. Sandra Hall, \u2018The Bulletin\u2019 November 7, 1971 \u201cThe face of Victoria Anoux has been used to sell a wide variety of products in countless TV commercials and she is well known to Sydney viewers for her role in the Made in Australia TV series. Her co-star in a new experimental feature film made in Sydney is Michael Laurence of The Godfathers. Michael\u2019s fans are in for a surprise if the film is ever released: he appears with Victoria in a sizzling nude love scene.\" Veritas, \u2018Sunday Mirror\u201d October 31, 1971 \"Kit Guyatt and I made a movie of The Phallic Forest which toured as a double bill with Phil Noyce\u2019s twin-screen documentary Good Afternoon. The Phallic Forest had got a fair bit of attention, not only from the press. We announced in the blurb: \u201cThe title story was made into a short movie and its screening at the Melbourne Film Co-op caused raids and prosecution.\u201d The female lead, Victoria Anoux, recalls in her memoir Losing Alexandria (published under her married name, Victoria Thompson) that Patrick White was particularly taken by the movie. She told me that when Patrick and Manoly were in New York, Patrick sent her a card of a Rousseau painting of a nude nestling in a lush forest. He wrote on the back that it reminded him of The Phallic Forest. Had Pat (Woolley) and I known, we would certainly have splashed that endorsement around.\" Michael Wilding, \u2018Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir\u2019 Giramondo 2011 1970 B&W Originally 16mm 38 min. \n 1. President Johnson\u2019s Visit\n A film by Kit Guyatt and Christopher Cordeaux \n 2. Balmain\n Director,producer: Kit Guyatt Camera: Jon Rhodes Editing: Stephen Wallace, Kit Guyatt Narration: John Power \n 3.The PhalLic Forest:\n Director, editor: Kit Guyatt Screenplay: Kit Guyatt and Michael Wilding, from the short story by Michael Wilding Camera: David Sanderson, Jon Rhodes Sound: Vincent O\u2019Donnell, Andrew Stewart Music: John Sangster Musicians: Dave Donovan, guitar, Warren Daly, drums, Darcy Wright, bass, John Sangster, orGan, Angela GibLin, vocals Cast: Judith Fisher, Michael Laurence, Victoria Anoux, Martyn Sanderson, Charles Little, Tony Ingersent, Candy Raymond, alexandra Hymes, Lisa Ostrick, Vern Todd, Nigel Roberts, Robert Adamson, Ken Quinell Language - English","videoId":6311368619112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Kit Guyatt Films: President Johnson\u2019s Visit, Balmain and the Phallic Forest","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"KG-Forest","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/4ea39c12-852f-4fb1-a0eb-518c12a33593/c816470c-88a2-420a-be2f-113f02a84bbd/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_australianAvantGarde","facets":"worldCinema , World cinema , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , made_20102019 , 2010\u20132019 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , origin_australia , Australia , origin_oceania , Oceania , video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"series":"Australian avant garde","date_of_publication":2012,"productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"KG-Forest","facet":["english","filmAndCinema","made_2000Present","made_20102019","origin_australia","origin_oceania","video","worldCinema"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Kit Guyatt~Michael Wilding~Kit Guyatt~Kit Guyatt~Kit Guyatt"}