Obsessed with Walking
September 12th 2010 04:32
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Obsessed with Walking
ABC1 Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 10pm
ABC2 Sunday 19 September 2010 at 6.30pm
Production details
Obsessed with Walking is produced by Flaming Star Films.
Developed and produced with the assistance of ABC TV, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, Headlands, Shark Island Documentary Fund.
Writer / Director: Rosie Jones
Executive Producer: Sharyn Prentice
Producer: Lavina Riachi
ABC TV Commissioning Editor: Amanda Duthie
Los Angeles International Airport. A jumbo jet lunges onto the tarmac and taxis to the terminal. An unusually tall and very thin man with a melancholy face strides out of the terminal onto Century Boulevard. It's Will Self, the novelist once notorious for his addictions and excesses but now known for his eccentric walking habits.
Self has already walked from his home in South London to Heathrow. Now he'll trek 120 miles across LA to Hollywood for a book he's writing about the impact of the environment on the human psyche.
He chooses a route through the grittiest suburbs, in search of a new kind of urban beauty. As Self walks, he muses on the power of walking to connect us to place, time and memory and evokes the spirit of other walkers whose art has changed the way we think, see and hear, such as Guy Debord and the Situationists and Self's enemy, the eighteenth-century poet and walker, William Wordsworth, whose poetry inspired a craze for walking in the English Lake District and, Self believes, kick-started international tourism.
For Self, walking has become an obsession, as it was for the Australian composer, Percy Grainger, who prepared for performances by walking to the edge of exhaustion and pain.
Five days after he set out on foot, Self threads his way through the crowds on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. But home again in London, he discovers that this walk has been a turning point in his personal journey.
Part lament and part travelogue, Obsessed with Walking explores both the outer journey and the inner journey made through walking - traversing the physical world and traversing the spirit and the imagination.
An ATOM study guide for Obsessed with Walking, is available now for free at HERE. (Click on study guides.)
If you miss the broadcast on ABC1 (Tuesday 14 September at 10pm) and ABC2 (Sunday 19 September at 6.30pm), the DVD is available from ATOM's The Education Shop.
ABC1 Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 10pm
ABC2 Sunday 19 September 2010 at 6.30pm
Production details
Obsessed with Walking is produced by Flaming Star Films.
Writer / Director: Rosie Jones
Executive Producer: Sharyn Prentice
Producer: Lavina Riachi
ABC TV Commissioning Editor: Amanda Duthie
Los Angeles International Airport. A jumbo jet lunges onto the tarmac and taxis to the terminal. An unusually tall and very thin man with a melancholy face strides out of the terminal onto Century Boulevard. It's Will Self, the novelist once notorious for his addictions and excesses but now known for his eccentric walking habits.
Self has already walked from his home in South London to Heathrow. Now he'll trek 120 miles across LA to Hollywood for a book he's writing about the impact of the environment on the human psyche.
He chooses a route through the grittiest suburbs, in search of a new kind of urban beauty. As Self walks, he muses on the power of walking to connect us to place, time and memory and evokes the spirit of other walkers whose art has changed the way we think, see and hear, such as Guy Debord and the Situationists and Self's enemy, the eighteenth-century poet and walker, William Wordsworth, whose poetry inspired a craze for walking in the English Lake District and, Self believes, kick-started international tourism.
For Self, walking has become an obsession, as it was for the Australian composer, Percy Grainger, who prepared for performances by walking to the edge of exhaustion and pain.
Part lament and part travelogue, Obsessed with Walking explores both the outer journey and the inner journey made through walking - traversing the physical world and traversing the spirit and the imagination.
An ATOM study guide for Obsessed with Walking, is available now for free at HERE. (Click on study guides.)
If you miss the broadcast on ABC1 (Tuesday 14 September at 10pm) and ABC2 (Sunday 19 September at 6.30pm), the DVD is available from ATOM's The Education Shop.
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