Australia After Dark (1975)

Interesting facts

Australia After Dark is a 1975 documentary directed by John D. Lamond. It was his first feature.

Production

The film was inspired by such movies as Mondo Cane which Lamond deliberately copied:

I borrowed a 16mm print of it and ran it on a closed circuit cinema thing and stopped and started the projector and looked at it. It ran on a sort of cycle – pathos, humour, oddity, nudity. I thought okay, what I need to do is shoot about fifty sequences, cut it into something coherent and pacey, and made it on the same sort of thing. I’d have something sexy, then something odd, then something really way-out, then something light hearted.

Hexagon Productions invested some money in the movie but the Australian Film Development Corporation did not. Lamond later re-shot some sequences after the initial shoot.

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