FROM THE OUTBACK TO THE BACKYARD AND BEYOND
“Throughout the years, Australia’s government-regulated film industry has engineered precarity and fused it with affective capital, turning national trauma into its primary growth sector. Beneath its polished rhetoric of recovery lies an exhausted public, resigned to the knowledge that belief itself is now professional duty. Ask anyone in or around the industry and you’ll hear it, though rarely on record – for fear of repercussion, and rightly so: Australian films, especially to Australian audiences, mostly suck.”