An Examination of Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 as a Representation of Australian Cultural Identities Bio John Grech (
[email protected]) John Grech is an artist and writer who has been exhibited and published in Australia, Europe, Canada and the USA. His last project is a web installation called "Interempty Space - The Global City" <www.cddc.vt.edu/host/interempty/index.html> (August 2002), a site dealing examining the web as an extension of the global city. Previous web installations include "Sharkfeed," <www,abc.net.au/sharkfeed> (July 2000) and was produced for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in conjunction with assistance from the Australian Film Commission. John is presently living in Europe where he is completing research towards a Ph D from the University of Technology, Sydney. 1 An Examination of Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 as a Representation of Australian Cultural Identities Abstract Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 (2000) is a complex film that deals with a range of existential issues confronting Australian identities at the end of the 20th Century. The film's challenging and uncompromising perspective radically re-aligns macro and micro discourses of global, personal, and psychological relations in a contemporary Australian context. An Examination of Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 as a Representation of Australian Cultural Identities Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 (2000) is a complex film that critically deals with a range of existential issues confronting Australian identities at the end of the 20th Century. This is one of the most interesting Australian movies made since Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer, 1993), What I Have Written (John Hughes, 1996), and The Castle (Rob Sitch, 1997).