Free Country: Colonial Incursions in Stephen Maxwell Johnson's 'High Ground'

Set a century ago at the tail end of Australia's frontier wars, Stephen Maxwell Johnson's feature presents a narrative of massacre, resistance and revenge centred on the relationship between a morally conflicted white bounty hunter and a mission-raised Aboriginal tracker. Drawing heavily on its Arnhem Land locations and filled with striking imagery, High Ground is a provocative interrogation into the nation's bloody history, as Nicholas Godfrey writes.

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