NAFA Chat: From childhood enthusiast to adult practitioner
Monday, 13 November 2023
6.30pm – 7.30pm (doors open 6pm)
Upstairs at Forrester's, Surry Hills
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Guest Speaker: Al Clark
Al Clark has produced films for the past four decades, first in the UK (where his credits include 1984, Absolute Beginners, and Gothic) and then in Australia.
His Australian films – which have been selected for most major film festivals and distributed worldwide – include The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Chopper, Siam Sunset, The Hard Word, Razzle Dazzle, Blessed, Red Hill, and Swinging Safari.
The recipient of the 2013 AACTA Raymond Longford Award for lifetime achievement, Al has also served on the board of Screen Australia.
He is the author of the books Raymond Chandler in Hollywood, The Lavender Bus, Time Flies, and Time Flies Too.
Time Flies is an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a childhood in a remote mining village in Southern Spain, the dislocating shock of a Scottish boarding school education, and a remarkable introduction to working life in London at Time Out then at Virgin, both at the peak of their maverick self-confidence.
A tireless spokesman for the company, and an improbable mouthpiece for the Sex Pistols at the time of their greatest fame and vilification, he later went on to produce numerous notable films, several classics among them.
Time Flies Too is the sequel to 2021’s beguiling and absorbing memoir Time Flies by Al Clark, who in its last paragraph married and settled in Australia after a Spanish village childhood, a Scottish boarding school education and nearly two decades of living and working in London in the pioneering days of Virgin Records.
