Haunted Country (2006)

A recurrent theme in Australian films, literature, art and history is the child who disappears into the bush. In contrast to European fairy tales, in which the wilderness can also be a refuge, and a place of self-discovery and transformation, the Australian bush is only a place of curse and doom. HAUNTED COUNTRY consists of images that are staged at places where children of colonists once disappeared. Both literally and metaphorically they touch on the vulnerability of children and the ambivalent relation Australians have with their merciless landscape.