
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this fun and thought-provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape. He takes us on a journey through this five-star constellation's astronomical, colonial and Indigenous history to the present day. For Aboriginal people the meaning of this heavenly body is deeply spiritual. By contrast, the star-adorned Eureka Flag was emblematic of protest and defiance, a quality that cau... (Full plot summary below)
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Filmmaker Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this fun and thought-provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape. He takes us on a journey through this five-star constellation's astronomical, colonial and Indigenous history to the present day. For Aboriginal people the meaning of this heavenly body is deeply spiritual. By contrast, the star-adorned Eureka Flag was emblematic of protest and defiance, a quality that caused it to be adopted by activists, and lately, the darker side of Australian nationalism.
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| Graffiti With PunctuationBlake HowardThe first stanza of "We Don't Need A Map" is a furious, energetic, punk rock f*ck you, that kicks the audiences arse with a collision of styles and content. |
| The Sunday AgeCraig MathiesonWarwick Thornton's documentary about the numerous facets of Australian life that have attached themselves to the Southern Cross is a deceptively astute and free-wheeling journey into unknown histories and an unconsidered present. |
| 4:3Conor BatemanLevity is an easy takeaway in a documentary that manages to address a broad range of pressing contemporary discussions on race, history and identity. |
| JunkeeTom CliftAn entertaining gonzo-style doco about the history and meaning of the southern hemisphere's most iconic constellation. |