Love & Fury: Judith Wright and 'Nugget' Coombs

BACKGROUND In 2009 the embargo on letters between Judith Wright and Nugget Coombs held at the Australian National Library was lifted. Wright, among Australia's foremost literary figures, poet, essayist, activist, dedicated herself to writing and fighting for a more humane Australia. Coombs, advisor to governments from Curtin to Whitlam, devoted the last decades of his life to Indigenous Australia. They kept their 25 year relationship a secret. In addition to this newly available archival material, there are extensive and diverse documents produced by and about Coombs and Wright, including their own works of poetry, autobiography and memoir, and other sound and vision files. The researcher explored how to employ these various documents to tell the story of these two extraordinary individuals whilst respecting the privacy they both worked so hard to maintain. CONTRIBUTION In Love & Fury the researcher takes up Wright's own conviction that 'the argument must be felt as much as told', and proceeds by way of using the essay film genre to use the affective potential of cinema in order to explore the two writers' converging preoccupations around activism and art. Hughes achieved his intentions through a careful use of voice over, interviews, archival footage, and his approach to filming the natural environment. SIGNIFICANCE The essay form is employed here to cinematically enact the tensions that the couple navigated in their life, art and politics. It mounts an argument around their political and intellectual influence, whilst simultaneously offering up insight into their personal experiences, without exposing an intimacy they kept from public scrutiny. "The impact from these eminent lovers' shared values... comes not as argument, but through a fusion of feeling, image, sound and vision. This is cinema." (Lawson, 2013). Narrated by Ramona Koval, with 2 pre-eminent Australian actors, Helen Morse and Paul English.

### 背景
2009年，收藏于澳大利亚国家图书馆（Australian National Library）的朱迪思·赖特（Judith Wright）与纳吉特·库姆斯（Nugget Coombs）之间的往来书信封存禁令正式解除。赖特是澳大利亚顶尖文学大家之一，身兼诗人、散文家与社会活动家，毕生致力于文学创作与为建设更具人文关怀的澳大利亚而奋斗。库姆斯曾为从卡廷（Curtin）到惠特拉姆（Whitlam）多届澳大利亚政府提供顾问服务，晚年数十年投身澳大利亚原住民事务。二人将长达25年的恋情严守秘密。
除这批新近开放的档案资料外，现存还有大量由二人创作或与二人相关的多元文献，涵盖其诗歌作品、自传与回忆录，以及其他音视频素材。本研究探讨了如何在尊重二人毕生竭力守护的隐私的前提下，利用这些多元文献讲述这两位非凡人物的人生故事。

### 研究贡献
在《Love & Fury》中，本研究秉承赖特的理念——"叙事既要诉诸言说，亦需引发共情"，采用随笔电影（essay film）体裁，借助电影的情感感染力，探讨两位创作者在行动主义与艺术领域的共同关切。休斯通过精心运用旁白、访谈、档案影像以及自然环境拍摄手法，达成了创作初衷。

### 研究意义
本片采用随笔形式，以电影化手法具象呈现二人在人生、艺术与政治领域所历经的张力。作品围绕二人的政治与思想影响力展开论述，同时深入剖析其个人经历，却并未触及二人始终避于公众审视的私密情感。"这两位杰出爱侣共享的价值观念所带来的影响……并非源于说理，而是经由情感、影像、声音与视觉的融合而传递。这便是电影的魅力所在。"（劳森，2013）
本片由拉蒙娜·科瓦尔（Ramona Koval）旁白，参演的两位澳大利亚知名演员为海伦·莫尔斯（Helen Morse）与保罗·英格利希（Paul English）。