Artists’ Film: World of Art Publisher / Utber & Patullo Publishing Fatal Contact explores the devastating

Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788

Claudine Butler

more resilient and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age

Each fairy wren is handpainted and designed with bright

and haunted galleries and salons

Artists’ Film: World of Art Publisher / Utber & Patullo Publishing Fatal Contact explores the devastatingThis detailed survey presents for the first time an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists ever evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early twentieth century to now. From early pioneers to key artists of the present, leading authority and film expert David Curtis offers a vivid account of the numerous individuals who have been inspired by the cinematic medium and felt compelled to interpret and respond to it in their own