Yellow House Artist Collective exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, there was also a puppet theatre, light shows, performance of plays and regular screening of films. These included a range of classic, avant garde and modern works such Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou", Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", Phil Noyce's "Better to Reign in Hell", Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" and Peter Weir's "Count Vim's Last Exercise", as well as works by Albie Thoms, Bruce Petty, Mick Glasheen and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. In 1990 the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged an exhibition which comprised, in part, reconstruction of some of the
The Big Swallow "makes imaginative use of an extreme close-up to create one of the seminal images of early British (and world) cinema, as effective in its way as the slashed eyeball of "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), and of just as much appeal to the Surrealist movement." The film, however, "might have been still more effective if Williamson had omitted the second and third shots," in which he, "cuts to the photographer apparently disappearing into a black void, and then back to the man who retires munching him up and expressing great satisfaction, "since they detract from the logical purity of the first,