“Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight...“
Tomorrow (Sunday) sees the Australian big screen premiere of Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under (a film by Ed Gibbs and Rubika Shah), at the 64th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
This follows the film’s premiere at the 65th Berlinale earlier this year.
See the Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under Facebook page, for further info.
We’ll leave you with the synopsis.
The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie's biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely journey deep into the Australian outback led to its unprecedented success.
An early pioneer of music video, Bowie’s visual legacy hit a new peak in 1983, on the newly launched MTV. With rare political insight, Let’s Dance told the story of a young couple’s struggle with assimilation in the New World – one of the few times Indigenous Australians had been seen on global television by a mainstream audience.
Let’s Dance: Bowie Down Under looks back at this oft-overlooked period of Bowie’s celebrated career, exploring his sudden appearance in the outback, the social and cultural issues of the time, and the legacy of a remarkable work that still resonates today.
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