Whether it’s the Ford Falcon hooning down the highway in Mad Max or hoofs pounding the highlands in The Man from Snowy River, traversing the country reflects a sense of adventure and national advancement.
But beneath the roads connecting the country are Indigenous walking paths and trading routes, from the Omeo Highway to the Bicentennial and Birdsville tracks, that have existed long before cities or cinema.
Beneath Roads is a three-channel work that reveals the Indigenous experience and innovation underlying our national identity. By juxtaposing archival government films, iconic Australian road movies and newly captured footage of the Aboriginal motorcycle club, The Southern Warriors, Beneath Roads reinserts First Peoples knowledge, legacies and representation into our cinematic canon, recontextualising our relationship to history, culture and Country.
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