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Stephen Cummins’s moving films about gay Australian life hold been restored to their glory, 30 years after his death
Two men smooch passionately, the camera so close it's almost a third party eager to join. We pan to their profiles, two men in suits, the words "Taste The Difference" appearing overlaid while they retain at it. Effectively banned from airing on television in 1989, maybe this mock ad proved a little too tempting: Now, three decades later, you can find out for yourself.
Taste The Difference is one of nine concise films by late Australian director Stephen Cummins that have been recently restored by the National Motion picture and Sound Archive (NFSA).
The kiss between performers Chris Ryan and Herb Robertson was commissioned as part of a series of Australian artists making 30-second films for late-night Perth television. Given that, in 1989, Western Australia was amid its fifth (ultimately successful) attempt to decriminalise homosexual acts, Cummins and his friend and collaborator Simon Hunt (better established by drag persona Pauline Pantsdown) decided to produce a mock ad selling homosexuality.
"We were laughing about it," says Hunt. "It [was] all ver
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