In these challenging times of rising global tensions, we invite you to the Adelaide premiere screenings of TWILIGHT TIME – a powerful film for those who genuinely care.
TWILIGHT TIME is a gripping profile of the Australian professor Desmond Ball, who unflinchingly examined Cold War nuclear strategy and advocated for the sovereign defence of Australia.
Ball is remembered as the ‘insurgent intellectual’ whose life-long investigation of the controversial US military base Pine Gap enraged Australia’s defence establishment. His opposition and activism against the American war in Vietnam in the 1960s earned him decades of ASIO surveillance. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ball offered guidance on signals intelligence to ethnic minorities targeted by the Burmese military. His work on the Australian government’s complicity with the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 gave the public a taste of secrets governments would prefer to remain hidden.
Employing a wealth of archival footage, documentarian John Hughes captures the heated atmosphere of late-20th-century geopolitics through a distinctly Australian lens, bearing witness to events such as US ambassador Ed Clarke’s ‘peppercorn’ speech at North West Cape, Gough Whitlam’s infamous dismissal from office and the civil unrest that rocked the nation during the Vietnam War.
TWILIGHT TIME is a rich – and tremendously timely – look at Australia’s complicated involvement in global strategy, defence policy and mass surveillance.
Both screenings will feature a Q&A session with special guest Film Director John Hughes.
THURSDAY 6 FEB @ 7PM
CAPRI THEATRE
141 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood, SA
SATURDAY 8 FEB @ 7PM
ODEON STAR CINEMA
65 Semaphore Rd, Semaphore, SA
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