This is a low-budget, black-and-white, experimental film made at La Trobe University in Melbourne in the early 70s by American academic Dave Jones and some local film buffs.
The film, which is a film within a film, documents a director and his actors arguing about how to make the film and apparently improvising parts of the script as they go along. The director wishes to both make a homage to and satire of Jean-Luc Godard's film, and the characters discuss the need to integrate political comment, social revolution, philosophy and ideas like entropy into the film. The film illustrates such ideas as director-as-dictator, and the tendency of revolutionary ideas to degenerate into meaningless bloodbaths.
While quite witty in parts, the film is also silly elsewhere and very stagey. While those interested in the history of film may enjoy the discussion of ideas, anyone looking for a coherent narrative will be disappointed. The film's only woman, who is in love with the director until he eventually kills her, is naked for most of the performance in what is meant to be a cynical attempt to attract an audience to the discussion of ideas.
It's tongue-in-cheek and a good look at film buffs in the 60s and early 70s.
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