Ally Burnham Ally Burnham i(20260176 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Robert Adamson Ally Burnham , 2025 single work essay
— Appears in: Live Encounters , January 2025;
'There was 9 hours of footage about Robert Adamson’s works, his personality, and his effect on the contributors as individuals and the wider Australian poetic community. A ‘paper- draft’ was created first, the step where an editor writes a transcript, and from that text, is able to more easily pluck out connected themes, similar topics discussed, and then group them together. This was particularly interesting to do, as many contributors had different memories of the same moments of Robert’s life. The facts may be different, but the essence they were communicating was always the same. Keeping these contra- dictions and individual perspectives seemed important -- intentionally matching the correctly remembered facts side-by-side with the misremembered details -- in an attempt to elevate the work away from simple ‘reading the facts’ to a more human-centred recollection of a man, the portraiture of who he had become in the mind of others. In this sense, there isn’t one Robert talked about in this documentary, but twelve -- one for each person who spoke about him.' (Introduction)
1 form y separately published work icon Metropius Ally Burnham , ( dir. Dan Macarthur ) Australia : 18 Degrees Films , 2021 26406023 2021 single work film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon Unsound Ally Burnham , ( dir. Ian Watson ) Australia : Wise Goat Productions , 2020 20260281 2020 single work film/TV

'When gigging guitarist, Noah, finds himself disillusioned and transient, he quits the band of his 90’s pop icon mentor, and returns to his mother’s home. Clashing with his mother over old wounds, Noah seeks solace elsewhere, and soon finds himself with a young, trans-man, Finn, who is a proud, Auslan-only speaker. But as the two become closer, and with no shared language to fall back on, they only risk hurting each other, as they learn to be true to themselves.'

Source: Screen Australia.

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