Movie

Sunshine City
1973 · 118 min
A drifting, sun-dazed diary of a city, more texture and light than story, rewarding patience with atmosphere.
- Directed by
- Albie Thoms
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jim Anderson, Cynthia Dyer-Bennet, David Elfick
- Overview
- SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia call it “a structured diary film which investigates the process of living in Sydney, which uses a repeating light modulation to intensify experiences of light, heat, colour”.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, art, memory
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Albie Thoms
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jim Anderson, Cynthia Dyer-Bennet, David Elfick


