Australia’s First Peoples are connected to Country through thousands of generations of kinship ties. We derive our identity, culture, law and knowledge from Country – something we express and uphold through moving image storytelling. Through the screen, we’re able to tell our story of survival against the violence of colonisation, ensuring our connection and re-connection to Country endures from the past to today.
The Australian landscape is never just a setting. It’s meditative, motivational and menacing; a character that empowers, intimidates and inspires. For years, the Outback has dominated Australian screen stories, but representations have sprawled into the suburbs and cities, creating compelling and complex characters on our screens.
Films in Landscape as Character
The Hunter
Courtesy Porchlight Films Pty Ltd, 2011
Van Diemen's Land
Courtesy Noise and Light Pty Ltd, 2009
Mystery Road
Courtesy Bunya Productions Pty Ltd, 2013
Beneath Clouds
Courtesy Bunya Productions Pty Ltd, 2002
The Turning
Courtesy Arenamedia Pty Ltd, 2013
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Courtesy MGM Media Licensing, 1994
Tracks
Courtesy See-Saw (Tracks) Holdings Pty Limited, 2013
Lantana
Courtesy Jan Chapman Films Ltd, 2001
Home Song Stories
Courtesy of Porchlight Films Pty Ltd, 2007
Muriel's Wedding
Courtesy House & Moorhouse Films Pty Ltd, 1994
There Goes Our Neighbourhood
Courtesy People Productions and Wildbear Entertainment, 2017
Sunshine
Courtesy Easy Tiger Productions Pty Ltd., 2017
Pawno
Courtesy Toothless Pictures Pty Ltd., 2015
'Pretty Boy Blue' – Redfern Now
Courtesy Blackfella Films Pty Limited, 2012
The Bank
Courtesy Arenafilm Pty Ltd, 2001
The Castle
Courtesy Working Dog Productions Pty Ltd, 1997
Head On
Courtesy Head On Productions Pty Ltd, 1998
Top End Wedding
Courtesy Goalpost Pictures, 2019
Strictly Ballroom
Courtesy © M&A Film Corporation Pty Ltd, 1992
Death in Brunswick
Courtesy Meridian Films, 1990
Oyster Farmer
Courtesy Anthony Buckley Films Pty Ltd, 2004
High Tide
Courtesy SJL Productions Ltd., 1987
Breath
Courtesy Breath Productions, 2018
The Gods of Wheat Street
Courtesy Every Cloud Productions, 2014
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183830
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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Australia → MA-01. Place → MA-01-001
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