Paranoid Australia: Alone in a Strangerland

Kim Farrant's debut feature foregrounds the enormity of the Australian landscape, and highlights the manifold ways in which our continued existence on stolen Aboriginal land inflames historical wounds. The film also explores the relationships between fear and family, youth and sexuality, and the persisting subjugation of women both at home and in broader society, writes Lauren Carroll Harris.

Additional keywords: colonialism, postcolonialism, displacement, Indigenous, race, mythos, landscape, rural, marginalisation, gender, misogyny, sexism, oppression, Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes.