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ESSAYS№ 01
Australian cinema keeps filming the outback and forgetting the towns in between
The films get made in Sydney and Melbourne, the stories get set in the outback, and the actual regional cities where most Australians live barely appear at all.
MARA DENG16.09.2025
ESSAYS№ 02
Australian cinema keeps going back to drought because drought never really left
The dry country is not a backdrop; it is a condition, and Australian film returns to it the way a tongue returns to a broken tooth.
MARA DENG24.03.2021
ESSAYS№ 03
Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock in a room I could not leave
Three women vanish into a landscape that does not want them, and I watched it from a flat with no balcony in Fitzroy.
MARA DENG12.11.2020