The remarkable life and work of ‘barefooted academic’ Desmond Ball (1947-2016) will screen at the Palace Cinema, Byron Bay, on July 18 from 6pm.
Filmmakers describe Twilight Time as, ‘a gripping profile of one of the world’s greatest scholars of military strategy and defence – the man who unflinchingly examined Cold War nuclear strategy, and advocated for the sovereign defence of Australia’.
‘Hailed by former US president Jimmy Carter as “the man who saved the world” for his work proving the fallacy of the doctrine of “limited nuclear war”, Ball is remembered as the “insurgent intellectual” whose life-long investigation of controversial US military base Pine Gap enraged Australia’s defence establishment’.
Following the film, there will be an exclusive Q&A session with writer/director, John Hughes, and Dr Peter Hayes, Honorary Professor at the Centre for International Security Studies at Sydney University.
For more visit twilighttimethefilm.com.au.
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