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[HIGH-GROUND]
ESSAYS№ 01
2021 was the year Australian cinema got serious and the audience looked away
Four of the year's most significant Australian films dealt in violence, guilt, grief, and landscape, and the domestic audience chose to watch something else.
MARA DENG14.12.2021
MUSIC№ 02
The score for High Ground maps the frontier in two musical languages
Teague scores the colonial violence with orchestral weight and the Indigenous resistance with rhythmic patience, and the gap between the two is the film's argument.
KIERAN BOUSTANY20.10.2021
ESSAYS№ 03
High Ground walks the frontier and does not pretend to own the view
Stephen Johnson's frontier western is a film about complicity, and it implicates its audience by making them comfortable before it makes them accountable.
MARA DENG20.04.2021