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Homefront Sculpture

Locality: Greensborough, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9490 4222

Address: cnr. McDowell St. & Ester St. 3088 Greensborough, VIC, Australia

Website: https://www.banyule.vic.gov.au/homefront

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25.01.2022 Extremely excited about our Homefront Documentary making Official Selection at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2019! Congratulations to Mike Wilkins on ...a sterling piece of film making! Can catch it at the Nova at 2pm, 20 July. http://mdff.org.au/films/homefront Meantime, check out the promo on our Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dPTin60QRW0

25.01.2022 Rare photo of World War I soldiers paying tribute to 8 million horses, mules, and donkeys lost in World War I.

24.01.2022 WWI Nurse, with armful of blankets. At her feet sits a kookaburra and a eucalyptus twig forged in steel. The kookaburra is a symbol of home and also of the War Widows Guild.

23.01.2022 A Frontier War Memorial is planned for Tasmania. It will be fascinating to see what form the community will decide it takes.

22.01.2022 One of my favourite memories is watching local war veterans unveil the Homefront sculptures on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day in Greensborough last year. The sculptures form a unique type of war memorial, one that reflects actual experiences and stories of war veterans. If you love a good story, (one that might require tissues,) spend an hour watching Homefront: A New Kind of War Memorial, screening on SBS On Demand until December 11.

21.01.2022 Unveiling the Homefront Sculptures: 11 November 2018

21.01.2022 Trailer of the Day! Homefront plays Cinema Nova on 20th July 2019 @ 2pm. Tix: www.mdff.org.au

20.01.2022 Homefront: A New Kind of War Memorial screens on SBS Monday 11 November 2.30pm

19.01.2022 We are thrilled to announce that Homefront- the documentary about designing and creating the new sculptures in Greensborough War Memorial Park has been selected to screen at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Screening is at Cinema Nova on 20 July. Details here: http://mdff.org.au/films/homefront Congratulations to filmmaker Mike Wilkins for his passion for this project and the months of work he put in to make this exceptional film.

16.01.2022 Airing tomorrow: Wednesday 11 November at 3pm: Homefront-A New Kind of War Memorial on SBS If you missed it last year, this is the story of the new war memorial sculptures in Greensborough War Memorial Park; it's a great story and the footage of our local war veterans speaking of their war experiences is something remarkable to witness.

15.01.2022 Congratulations to filmmaker Mike Wilkins; his beautiful documentary on the making of the Greensborough War Memorial sculptures has been nominated for Best Documentary in the Melbourne Stories category of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who showed their support by attending the Greensborough Hoyts and the Cinema Nova screenings. This documentary has also been picked up by SBS and will be shown on 11 November this year.

15.01.2022 Lady on the bench; with a forged poppy by Roland on each end. If you look closely, you will see that Hikaru has carved a tear on her face.

14.01.2022 The Curb interviews the directors of Homefront debuting at Cinema Nova on 20th July 2019 @ 2pm. Tix www.mdff.org.au https://www.thecurb.com.au/homefront-filmmakers-michael-w/

11.01.2022 In the wake of Australia's devastating bushfires, Team Rubicon Australia are uniting the skills and experiences of Australian Defence Force veterans with first responders to assist in disaster recovery. This is a startup organisation working across the country. Veterans are encouraged to volunteer. This footage is from a home destroyed in the December fires in South Australia. The team spent days sifting through the remains to recover medals, other service memorabilia and personal items for a young veteran and his family.

10.01.2022 We Are Moving Stories talks to Writer/Director Michael Wilkins: Why is public art so often undervalued in Australia? http://www.wearemovingstories.com//homefront-a-new-kind-of

10.01.2022 WWII Pilot & Sailor Carving by Hikaru Kodama, the propellors are forged (not cast!) stainless steel by Roland Dannenhauer, tricky steel knotwork By Roland with help from Shane Kenny. The sailor gazes towards Station Pier, Melbourne where, during World War II, Australian sailors boarded ships bound for battle.

10.01.2022 During World War I there were people on the front recording audio. Special units used a technique called sound ranging to try and determine where enemy gunfire was coming from. To do so, technicians set up strings of microphonesactually barrels of oil dug into the grounda certain distance apart, then used a piece of photographic film to visually record noise intensity. The effect is similar to the way a seismometer records an earthquake. Using that data and the time betwe...en when a shot was fired and when it hit, they could then triangulate where enemy artillery was locatedand adjust their own guns accordingly. At least one bit of that sound ranging film survived the Warthe film recording the last few minutes of World War I when the guns finally fell silent at the River Moselle on the American Front. Londons Imperial War Museum uses those graphic sound waves to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect and the guns fell silent. As part of a celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, the museum commissioned the sound production company Coda to Coda to use the film strip of the guns firing away at 10:58 A.M. on November 11, 1918, then going silent when the clock strikes 11, the symbolic moment politicians determined the war would end, to try and recreate what that instant may have sounded like. According to the company, the film strip has six lines, one for each microphone in use. The team researched the types of weapons being used by each side at the end of the war, then used the film to determine the size, frequency and distance of blasts. Looking at landscape images of the front, they also figured out how intense the reverberations from the blasts would be. Using that info, they recreated the sound of the last minutes of battle,

10.01.2022 For the next three days (until midnight Monday 27 April,) you'll be able to watch Homefront-A New Kind of War Memorial online. This documentary about the making of the new War Memorial sculptures for Greensborough War Memorial Park was shortlisted for best Melbourne Documentary at the 2019 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. As most of us are staying at home this ANZAC Day, our filmmaker Mike Wilkins has made this special film available to watch online this weekend. Also, if you feel inclined, this is also a good time to donate to your local RSL. In Remembrance.

10.01.2022 Only a small amount of tickets left for this Saturdays screening of the HOMEFRONT documentary at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Come along and meet international chainsaw carver Hikaru Kodama, and local carvers Leigh Conkie & John Brady https://www.cinemanova.com.au/f/mdff-saving-warru-homefront

09.01.2022 Behind the scenes; Roland with the difficult and delicate work of forging and fitting the bridle, and welding on a horseshoe to the Light Horse sculpture.

08.01.2022 The new Homefront website has just gone live on the Banyule City Council main website. Included are the back stories to each of the sculptures, photos of the making of the sculptures, stories from our local veterans that inspired the sculpture designs, and some fantastic video footage of the chainsaw carvers and blacksmith in action.

08.01.2022 We owe a debt that we can never repay. Thank a veteran. #JmStorm #veteransday

07.01.2022 We had to burn some sculptures. And then we made some new sculptures. Our friend Mike filmed us and was immediately obsessed with what we were doing. What was meant to be a 4 minute film of a fire became a full documentary about the creation of a unique war memorial in Greensborough. And then SBS picked it up. It is with great excitement that we announce the screening of Homefront: A New Kind of War Memorial on SBS on this Monday 11 November at 2.30pm.... Our thanks goes to the awesome Mike Wilkins for telling this remarkable story through film, reminding us how precious the the experiences of our veterans are and how artists can bring these experiences to life. Huge thanks to Colin James who saw the potential of this project years before the first chainsaw was started, and bought us all together to make this happen. Thanks also to: Leigh Conkie who, as well as carving, doesn't realise what a genius coordinator he is, engaging world class carvers and sourcing the huge chunks of wood we needed. Hikaru Kodama, who travelled from Japan to lend us his incredible chainsaw skills, few in the world can carve such expressive faces. John Brady, one of Australia's most experienced carvers for his support work on our largest piece. Roland Dannenhauer, a gifted blacksmith whose steelwork on these pieces is simply astonishing. Our metalwork and installation team: Justin Purser, Shane and Thomas Kenny and blacksmith Steve Nicoll. Mike's film crew who working on sound and grading. Our support team who worked on footings, transport and surface treatment. Homefront is a partnership between Banyule City Council - a big thank you to Hannes and the team, Austin Health - thanks to Robert Winther and the veterans who shared their experiences with us and to Neil Grant for running the writing workshops, and the Greensborough RSL - thanks to Lee and Simon for their support. Homefront: A New Kind of War Memorial is dedicated to the memory of: Wayne Conkie 13 August 1957 - 26 July 2018 and Ron Cornelious 25 April 1924 - 20 July 2018

05.01.2022 We've just recived word that filmmaker Mike Wilkins has signed a contract for SBS-TV to acquire the Homefront documentary for three years! HOMEFRONT will screen on SBS on 11th November 2019 (Remembrance Day) at 3pm.

04.01.2022 A reminder for all our friends, our supporters and all those interested in creative recovery, public art and the experiences of war veterans, Homefront: A New Kind of War Memorial screens on SBS this afternoon at 2.30pm. This documentary covers the creation of a series of sculptural figures in Greensborough War Memorial Park. It was shortlisted for Best Melbourne Documentary at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival earlier this year. Thanks to filmmaker Mike Wilkins and the... team that made this wonderful documentary, and also the artists, the veterans and support workers who made this unique series of sculptures a reality. https://www.freeview.com.au//38fccaa7-9819-4b9a-87ae-29b15

03.01.2022 The Vietnam War was Australia's longest military engagement of the 20th century. Almost 60,000 Australians fought in the war and more than 500 lost their lives.... Originally known as Long Tan Day, Vietnam Veterans Day is commemorated on 18 August every year. With the greatest of respect to Vietnam Veterans and all the battles they have fought #LestWeForget

03.01.2022 Thanks to everyone who attended the screening of Homefront - the documentary by local filmmaker Mike Wilkins. Stay tuned for details about the next public screening which will be announced next week. :)

02.01.2022 Film Director Mike Wilkins and I had the pleasure of speaking with acclaimed film critic Peter Krausz on his WynFM show Movie Metropolis about the Homefront documentary. Also with us on the show was Alex Siddons discussing his film The Art of Incarceration. Both films are featuring at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in July. The radio show aired on 8 June, so click that link if you'd like to listen.

02.01.2022 A beautiful article in The Age recently profiling the Homefront sculptures and Vietnam veteran Bill Cantwell. Article by Carolyn Webb with some gorgeous photographs by the renowned Jason South.

01.01.2022 Ending this afternoon at 3.30pm: the SBS ON Demand screening of Homefront: A New Kind of War Memorial by filmmaker Mike Wilkins. Featuring many of the beautiful war veterans and artisans I've worked with over a couple of years to build this special war memorial in Greensborough. Watch it if you have time today!

01.01.2022 The magnificent Light Horse; a combined effort from three fantastic carvers; Hikaru Kodama who did the main carving, Leigh Conkie and John Brady, who also gave us Waa the Black Crow from Wurundjeri legend. The bridle is forged stainless steel by blacksmith Roland Dannenhauer.

01.01.2022 A beautiful reflection on military service and the power of 'I Was Only 19'.

01.01.2022 Homefront-the Documentary screens tomorrow at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. If you'd like to join the Filmmaker, Producer and the three Chainsaw Artists who carved the Greensborough War Memorial Sculptures, get your tickets from the Cinema Nova website. Homefront screens at 2pm, Saturday 20 July at Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon Street, Carlton