The documentary films made by Catherine Hunter are characterised by a respect for and love of the process of making art and a belief that art and artists are not somehow apart from the world.
On the contrary, artists are deeply and crucially engaged in shaping our sense of place, identity and of what it is to be human.
Backstory
Catherine Hunter has worked in the arts as a writer, producer and director for more than thirty-five years. After two decades of documenting the full range of the arts with the Nine network's acclaimed "Sunday" program, she left to work as a freelance documentary maker in collaboration with a small group of like-minded professionals. In particular, Bruce Inglis who has been the cinematographer on all the films and also editor of many.
Her passions are for the arts and architecture. Recent films include The Cobar Sound Chapel, Bronwyn Oliver - The Shadows Within and Jeffrey Smart which screened on the ABC.
Film subjects include architect Glenn Murcutt and artists Ben Quilty, John Russell, Sidney Nolan, Margaret Olley, Wendy Sharpe, Jenny Sages, Roger Law (the co-creator of the UK's Spitting Image), Elisabeth Cummings, Harrie Fasher, Joe Furlonger and photographers Trent Parke and Jeff Carter. All films have been broadcast nationally and some featured at international festivals.
Public galleries that have commissioned films include: the National Gallery of Australia, QLD University of Technology, QLD Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery, the Tweed Regional Gallery and the National Art School, Sydney.
ATOM study guides for selected films are available as teacher resources at www.theeducationshop.com.au
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