Pretty good question. First posed for us in a series reversioned from the BBC by Artemis Films.
The new version of the Australian International Documentary Conference, now sub-named Net-Work-Play, has kept its market focus but abandoned Docweek, the documentary film festival which it started in 2013, under the umbrella of the Adelaide Arts Festival. It is a bit like that sorrowful moment in Exodus 2, when the daughter of the House of Levi had to commit her child to the waters of the Nile: ‘..she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink…’
