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Australia Locked Down: Brendan Schonfelder interview
Title:
Australia Locked Down: Brendan Schonfelder interview
NFSA ID
1640645
Year
2020
Courtesy
Jamie van Leeuwen and Brenden Schonfelder
Jamie van Leeuwen is the filmmaker and photographer behind the Australia Locked Down project, a crowdsourced audiovisual library dedicated to recording the impact of COVID-19 in Australia.
In this video he interviews Brenden Schonfelder, a Yarra Trams driver and photographer, who talks about the impact of the lockdown on Melbourne, the opportunity to document the beauty of the city after curfew at night and the important role of public transport staff in supporting essential workers to do their jobs.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.