The colourfully socked, hip-hopping, windswept-looking nonagenarians in our photograph are stars of a wittily named documentary, Hip Hop-eration.
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And now, as Sydney's welcome cultural tentacles reach out to usagain, the film is to be part of Canberra's first Seniors Film Festival, Young At Heart. The festival has been staged in Sydney for nine years and, for its 10th birthday, it is to include Canberra (and Melbourne) as well.
But what, we quizzed the festival's director, Matt Ravier, is a seniors film festival? Are there such things as films that have a special appeal to oldies?
Ravier, who is very experienced at showing seniors what they want to see (as well as running these festivals, his non-profit company, The Festivalists, helps stage monthly film events in Sydney for seniors), is quick to say that seniors are very diverse and not easily labelled.
After all, the word "seniors" can mean folk as diverse in age as young baby boomers in their early 60s and emeritus filmgoers in their 90s.
But, he continues, from all the feedback from seniors, there are some sorts of films that many seniors do – and do not – want to see. So, for example, these folk may dislike films in which the action is centred on the young and the aged characters are just caricatures.
"Ninety-nine per cent of our audiences [for the festivals and the monthly screenings] are over 60. They like older characters in films who are complex seniors, not just in the film as stereotypes, to give comic relief."
And these same audiences, he's found, like "romcoms" in which the lovers are grown-ups; "people who've lived and loved and learnt from their mistakes".
These filmgoers "like to see themselves [people of their age and experience] reflected back at them from the screen".
And so it comes to pass, for example, that one of the new films in the coming festival, Elsa & Fred (2014), stars the gnarled Christopher Plummer and the no longer a spring chicken Shirley MacLaine.
Then there is the aforementioned Hip Hop-eration (the name a play on the liberating surgery many creaking oldies resort to) in which a troupe of inspirational Kiwi nonagenarians compete at the Word Hip Hop Championships, held (needless to say) in Las Vegas.
Then there is the occasional beloved classic, including a reprint of The Way We Were (1973), enriched by Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand.
Young At Heart seeks, Ravier proclaims, to be a typical film festival in almost every way but with one or two tweaks in the direction of its senior clients.
Those tweakings include very low prices (for seniors are often not wallowing in wealth) and civilised, earlier screening times (since seniors tend not to be a nocturnal species).
The festival runs from March 14 to March 22 at Palace Electric. The program is posted at www.palacecinemas.com.au
Meanwhile, harking back to the classic The Way We Were and its haunting theme song, memories light the corners of our minds/Misty watercolour memories of the way we were/Before ACT self-government. Can it be that it was all so simple then/Or has time rewritten every line?
And now suspense builds as we await the announcement, any moment now, of the names of the five electorates to be created ahead of the next ACT Legislative Assembly elections.
Yes, the popular expansion of the ACT Legislative Assembly from 17 members to 25 is almost on us. At the next elections, in October 2016, five members will be elected from each of five electorates. Hitherto there have been just three electorates but now, with some juggled redistributions, we are to be blessed with five.
We, the people, were invited to suggest some names for them. On Sunday evening, the fun-loving ABC had some fun in its TV news with someone's submission that the five electorates be named after the five Planeteers (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water and Heart) of the Captain Planet animated environmentalist US TV series.
Inexplicably, there was no mention in the bulletin of my own submission that the new electorates be called Julian, Dick, Anne, Georgina (George) and Timmy after the five famous characters of Enid Blyton's colossal series of Famous Five adventure storybooks for children.
In our picture, we see a scene from the very first novella of the series. The five in the boat are, from left to right, Julian, Dick, George (a girl, doing the manly rowing) and, at the prow, Anne and Timmy, George's dog.
Generations of Australian children have read and loved the adventures. What's more, we submitted, giving electorates first names will fit with Australian informality and will encourage us to think of our electorates as friends rather than as just cold psephological calculations of demography.
Each one of the Famous Five youngsters has a very distinct character, and voters would love the sense of being in an electorate with a unique personality. Canberrans, enthusiastic dog owners, would love to live and vote in Timmy.
Then, Canberrans, the most open-minded of all Australians in matters of human sexuality, would have no problem at all in living in and voting in George, named after Blyton's complex "tomboy", a boy imprisoned in a girl's body.
Then, we submitted, the whole notion of self-government for the ACT and all of the notions of ACT politics have a charming, storybook quality, as if written by an Enid Blyton. There we rested our powerful and persuasive case.