Aboriginal film – Perisphere

Weir(d) Fiction

By Finn Odum September 8, 2023 September 8, 2023 Peter Weir Series

Three men sit around a table. The one on the left and the middle are Aboriginal men, the one on the right is a white lawyer.

|MH Rowe| One triumph of Peter Weir’s Witness (1985) is its sense of dreamy metaphor. The score, the cinematography, the simmer of desire between its lead characters, John Book (Harrison Ford) and Rachel Lapp (Kelly McGillis), and the situation of a hard-bitten Philadelphia Continue reading

Already Too Late

By Finn Odum September 8, 2023 September 15, 2023 Peter Weir Series

Chris Lee, an Aborigine man, stands on the right of a door, with his hand pressed to a window to his left.

|Cole Seidl| It is not particularly difficult to find films of resistance, or films in which colonized subjects fight back, asserting their rights and their refusal to go along peaceably with the agenda of their colonizers. Seek out the cinema of any colonized people and there will be many… Continue reading

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