The story of Arthur Stace THE
ETERNITY MAN runs like a song line through 20th century Sydney history.
Spanning four decades, Arthur Stace’s nocturnal mission to chalk his
timeless message on the city streets somehow captured its changing soul
and to this day his journey remains part of its quintessential urban
history.
Based on the 2003 Opera, THE ETERNITY MAN is a unique
film where words, music and moving images combine to create something
both startling and new - ‘The Eternity Man’ excites the senses. The high
calibre creative team including Jonathan Mills, the prominent
Australian composer who now holds the post of director of the Edinburgh
Festival; Dorothy Porter, the well respected novelist; UK Director
Julien Temple (Jo Strummer the Future is Unwritten, The Filth & the
Fury) and Producers Rosemary Blight (Clubland) and UK based John Wyver
(who won an International Emmy for his last filmed Opera ‘Gloriana’)
joined forces to ensure the creation of true ‘Event Television’. This is
an ABC TV and Channel 4 UK television presentation.
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- 2008
- Goalpost
Pictures & Illuminations Media
- Grant Doyle, Christa Hughes
- Dorothy Porter, Julien Temple & Jonathan Mills
- Julien Temple
- Rosemary Blight,
Alex Fleetwood, John Wyver
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Video Excerpts:
Chapter 2:
Arthur is hopelessly drunk and is keeping watch for the police outside his sister's brothel. In his stupor he neglects his job and Myrtle is forced to pay off the local superintendant. As he is kicked out of the house, it is clear she will no longer put up with him and his pathetic addiction.
WARNING: Coarse Language, sexual themes
Chapter 3:
In this sequence, Arthur is now homeless and meets
a fellow tramp who tells him to go to the Burton St Baptist church -
there he will get a free feed if he says he loves Jesus. Drunk and
delirious, he hears the words of the preacher and has a miraculous
revelation after mysteriously finding a piece of chalk in his pocket.
Previously unable to read or write, Arthur discovers his life's destiny.
WARNING: Coarse Language (only the first 2 minutes)
Chapter 7:
Arthur Stace (Grant Doyle), now quite aged, walks the streets of Sydney
like a phantom, scribing the word "Eternity" in chalk as he has done for
some 35 years. He is trapped in purgatory, believing if he ever lapsed
in his calling, he would be damned. Finally he is released by being
"exposed": his anonymity lost, his message no longer has meaning.
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