After a colourful film to brighten your winter days? Gillian Armstrong’s ‘Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst’, available on NFSA Player, is a portrait of a designer, writer, performer and entrepreneur whose greatest artwork was herself. In this excerpt from the film, we zoom into Broadhurst’s booming wallpaper factory for a glimpse of her working life in the 1960s. Armstrong builds up layers of time-lapse recreation footage, voice-overs, talking-heads interviews with her f
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