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Working to Play in a Rock Band

1979

Working to Play in a Rock Band

1979

  • NFSA ID0KHX4XPD
  • TypeFilm
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • Year1979

‘I tell you folks, it’s harder than it looks ...’ This scene from Bundy into Dreamland, an episode of the 1979 series Working, features the men of a five-piece band pondering the best way to stay afloat as they pursue the long way to the top. One prefers factory work, as it leaves his mind free for creative thought. We’re shown him nailing together plywood furniture that fleetingly looks like the frets of a guitar, capturing where his mind is as he labours. ‘Dreams are essential,’ he says.

Working is a window into 1970s Australia and its attitudes towards work. Bundy into Dreamland proposes the notion that work is just a means to an end, and that our passions are the real business of life.

‘I tell you folks, it’s harder than it looks ...’ This scene from Bundy into Dreamland, an episode of the 1979 series Working, features the men of a five-piece band pondering the best way to stay afloat as they pursue the long way to the top. One prefers factory work, as it leaves his mind free for creative thought. We’re shown him nailing together plywood furniture that fleetingly looks like the frets of a guitar, capturing where his mind is as he labours. ‘Dreams are essential,’ he says.

Working is a window into 1970s Australia and its attitudes towards work. Bundy into Dreamland proposes the notion that work is just a means to an end, and that our passions are the real business of life.

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