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From Literary Scandal to Cinematic Rendering
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How a 2007 literary scandal in which a disabled poet was publicly pathologised and marginalised beget a sustained autoethnographic film practice.
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From Literary Scandal to Cinematic Rendering
Disability Arts and the Performative-I in Autoethnographic Australian Cultural Production (Version 1.0)
by Robert Cettl AALIA
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20950705 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20950705
This working paper examines how a 2007 literary scandal in Adelaide, South Australia — in which a disabled poet was publicly pathologised and marginalised — became the catalyst for a sustained autoethnographic film practice.
Through close analysis of two short films, Confidential Report: An Australian Transgression (2010) and TLK Punk (2010), both now held in the National Film and Sound Archive and the Eros Foundation Archive, the paper traces the development of a performative autoethnographic methodology that moves from raw, confrontational response to more collaborative and ethically reflexive modes of representation.
Drawing on the author’s dual position as both the filmmaker and a former NFSA Research Fellow, the paper offers an insider account of how experiences of institutional pathologisation were transformed into critical cinematic interventions.
It positions the work within Disability Arts and contributes to ongoing discussions around the Next Wave of Disability Cinema, while also extending recent revaluations of Australian adult film archives as sites of cultural memory and creative practice.
This paper is offered as a companion piece to the author’s forthcoming updated monograph on representations of disability in Australian film.