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ESSAYS№ 01
Leah Purcell rewrote the bush myth and then set fire to it
Purcell took a Henry Lawson story, stripped it to the frame, and rebuilt it as a story about the women Lawson's Australia was built to forget.
MARA DENG02.04.2026
ESSAYS№ 02
I watched Samson and Delilah for the first time at thirty-two and I am still not sure I was ready
Thornton made a film about two teenagers in love in Central Australia, and the tenderness is so specific it bypasses every defence you have.
MARA DENG22.07.2025
FILM№ 03
Warwick Thornton's quiet argument with the church
Thornton photographs faith the way he photographs landscape: patiently, without commentary, and with an eye for what the light reveals about what is missing.
BRONTE HAUGHEY10.07.2024
FILM№ 04
Sweet As sends a teenager into the Pilbara with a camera and does not tell her what to find
Jub Clerc's debut follows a Nyul Nyul teenager on a photography trip through the Pilbara, and the film is gentle enough to let her look without narrating what she sees.
BRONTE HAUGHEY10.10.2023
ESSAYS№ 05
Ivan Sen stripped Limbo of colour and found everything underneath
Sen shot in black and white because the outback already has too many colours to lie behind.
MARA DENG08.06.2023
ESSAYS№ 06
Ablaze searches for films that were never meant to survive and finds them anyway
Tiriki Onus went looking for his grandfather's lost films and found something about what a country chooses to remember and what it lets rot.
MARA DENG10.02.2022
ESSAYS№ 07
The Sapphires proved that feel-good Australian cinema can be political without announcing it
Wayne Blair made a crowd-pleaser about four Aboriginal women singing soul music in Vietnam, and the politics are in every frame without ever being in the dialogue.
MARA DENG18.01.2022